Successful Gleaning Day - Contra Costa County
Slow Food Delta Diablo with a small but mighty group of volunteers had a fun and successful day
of gleaning in East County.
We started the day with a breakfast of zucchini muffins, coffee, tea and
yogurt before...
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Successful Gleaning Day - Contra Costa County
Slow Food Delta Diablo with a small but mighty group of volunteers had a fun and successful day
of gleaning in East County.
We started the day with a breakfast of zucchini muffins, coffee, tea and
yogurt before heading east.
Our first stop was Knoll Farms where Rick and Kristie had already
harvested boxes of produce for us.
We loaded 10 boxes of figs, 4 big boxes of Mediterranean
cucumbers and 4 big boxes of zucchini into the little red truck.
Once done, we headed to Tess Garden owned by Barbara Frantz.
We harvested 4 big boxes of table
grapes, testing them as we harvested to make sure they were delicious.
They were.
Soon we were off to the Brentwood Farmers Market.
We were greeted warmly by Greg, the
manager.
We shopped for our farmers market lunch while we introduced ourselves to farmers and let
them know we were collecting produce for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties.
The farmers were extremely generous and w
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