Join Eugene Area Gleaners – Here’s How

Join Eugene Area Gleaners – Here’s How

Get started with gleaning with the support of Eugene Area Gleaners! It’s easy! Harvest and rescue food to feed yourself, your family, and your community. Eugene Area Gleaners is a volunteer-led group that works through the efforts of a small group of volunteers...
Gleaners featured on KLCC!

Gleaners featured on KLCC!

On December 26, 2025, KLCC published an interview with Eugene Area Gleaners founder and president Brandy Collier. Brandy spoke with Kendra Schertell about what gleaning is and how the group got its start. Go here to listen to the radio interview, or read the article...

A Seed Is A Promise

Gleaner Min Yi Su shared her thoughts about the seed donation with us. For those of you who were lucky enough to attend the seed donation March 1st or receive one of the lovingly curated brown bags, like me, you are probably starting to witness your seeds sprout....
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...

… As I’ve Gleaned

    Covered In Bees   I have a complex relationship with bees. My name means “little bee”, so I grew up identifying with them. I was told as a child that the bumblebee defied physics… That they defied all natural laws every time they took flight. No one...