For Sarah By The Way

For Sarah By The Way

By Colleen Bauman(Written during blueberry season.)I’m enjoying being a Gleaner. Besides my once a month volunteer job picking up and delivering bread from a local bakery for the Gleaner family, I go on the occasional glean in the fields. Yesterday, it was...
Gratitude & Gleaning

Gratitude & Gleaning

In 2019, Qynne McKibben, Julia McAloon, and the founder of Eugene Area Gleaners, Brandy Collier, tabled at the “Nature of Gratitude” gathering at Tsunami Bookstore. Brandy was invited onstage to speak for a few minutes. This is a sliver of Brandy’s...

What to do with Hot Dog Buns!

At our bread drops, sometimes we get a lot of hot dog buns. This week in particular, I filled up my entire Dodge Grand Caravan with Hot Dog Buns (I wish I had taken a picture). Many folks may overlook hot dog buns as a choice to pick up from the bread drop sites...

Eugene Area Gleaners Blood Drive w/BloodWorks Northwest

Please join Eugene Area Gleaners for our first (hopefully!) Annual Blood Drive on July 18th at BloodWorks NW’s pop-up location at the Holiday Inn Express at 959 Kruse Way in Springfield. Our community blood bank is down 40% due to CoronaVirus and we need to step...