Dig in to Summer Gleaning with D.C. Central Kitchen

` Dig in to Summer Gleaning with D. C. Central Kitchen Gleaning – or the gathering of leftover crops from the field after harvest – is in full swing for D. C. Central Kitchen and many mid-Atlantic area Campus Kitchens. And good news for Campus Kitchens... More

` Dig in to Summer Gleaning with D. C. Central Kitchen Gleaning – or the gathering of leftover crops from the field after harvest – is in full swing for D. C. Central Kitchen and many mid-Atlantic area Campus Kitchens. And good news for Campus Kitchens who are not close enough to Washington, D. C. to pay our local farms a visit: there’s still time to make gleaning partnerships with your nearby aggies and collect what’s left from the season. Campus Kitchens might want to partner with pick-your-own berry farms, which see produce beginning to ripen in May and continuing until September, depending on geography. A few extra blueberries on a salad, or blackberries in a fresh-baked cobbler could be just the extra oomph (and antioxidants) community partners are looking for. D. C. Central Kitchen recently took its interns on a gleaning trip to Germantown, Md. to Butcher’s Orchard berry farm. Volunteers went to work filling as many blueberry containers as possible with almost over-ripe Less