It's really quite simple.  We are asking YOU to pledge the number of pounds of food you will donate and/or the number of hours you plan to volunteer this harvest season (September 21st - October 21st).

Harvest Share-People Care is about sharing abundance - the abundance of gardens in the midst of the fall harvest, the abundance of creativity and enthusiasm that people all over the US are bringing to nearly 100 Transition Initiatives in their communities and the dozens of other communities who are building more new Initiatives and the abundance of good that we can do to by making our communities more resilient and building connections with our neighbors.

Individuals and communities who are participating in Harvest Share-People Care will do everything from volunteer at a food bank to open their community garden to a gleaning day to share their harvest with their community, donate produce to a food pantry or soup kitchen or help a local school to prepare a winter garden bed.

There are far too many examples of actions that embrace the concept of 'Harvest Share - People Care' to list here.  Here is a list of fairly popular actions that individuals and community groups like Transition initiatives are doing:

• Start a gleaning program with your neighbors
• Deliver your "extra" produce to an elderly neighbor or a family with a new baby, or share what you grow with existing food banks or soup kitchens.
• Sponsor or support a garden at your local school that teaches kids about the importance of caring for the environment and consider giving a portion of the harvest to food banks, soup kitchens, and other food recovery programs.
• Coordinate and host a Gleaning Day with a variety of locations – including farms, restaurants, nurseries, etc.
• Contact a gleaning network to offer your extra produce for picking or to find out where you can help pick for them.
• Loan gardening tools and harvesting equipment for local gardening and gleaning efforts.
• Organize an awareness raising or reskilling event around food security, locavore topics, safe food handling, food storage, etc.
• Plan a local volunteer day related to food – whether working at an emergency kitchen, stocking shelves at a food pantry, delivering groceries to people with mobility issues, etc.
• Host Garden Party Potluck - invite people to make a dish with something they harvested from their own garden and bring a copy of the recipe for each of the guests.