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The Jefferson Park Gleaning Project
In early January of 2003, a group of teens came together with a common goal: to work on a gleaningfocused community project.
The purpose of this project was to redistribute the excess of locally grown food, much of...
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The Jefferson Park Gleaning Project
In early January of 2003, a group of teens came together with a common goal: to work on a gleaningfocused community project.
The purpose of this project was to redistribute the excess of locally grown food, much of which was
going to waste, to the community and to those who would not otherwise have access to it.
In order to
accomplish our goal we had to become familiar with various forms of technology and interview
skills.
The group included high school students from around the Jefferson Park Neighborhood and
was supervised by Barbara Eiswerth and Rainy Warf.
The first step was becoming oriented with the technology essential to the program.
We learned about
latitude and longitude, Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems, ArcView
and different kinds of maps.
Other necessary skills were conducting surveys, interviewing people
and identifying fruit trees.
Invited speakers helped us to master these important skills.
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