Slow Money Maine, July 2015 New England Food Vision 2015

14 years HMP 23 employees 2 counties 1.4 million FY 14

Starting in 2010 UMCE gleaned 4,000 LBS from 1 Orchard with 20 volunteers In 2013 a Community Development Block Grant through the Maine Office of Economic Community Development launched the GI. The Gleaning Initiative is a collaborative project of Healthy Acadia and UMaine Cooperative Extension. The Gleaning Trajectory

Volunteer-based Gleaning Goal 1 - Increase access to locally grown produce using volunteer labor to collect surplus from farms and distribute to food pantries and meal sites

Surplus and Seconds Management Goal 2 - Support family farm systems while supplying nutritious food to those in need

Goal 3 – Catalyze mutually beneficial relationships between farms, businesses, institutions, and food security organizations. Supporting the local food economy

Gleaning a Success! 60,000LBS 30 Farms 112 Volunteers Photos by Brendan Bullock & Maine Farmland Trust Four Season Farm - Harborside, ME 2014 Funding - Broad Reach Fund, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation, Quimby Family Foundation, USDA SARE 2014 Awards – NOECD/CD Sterling Achievement Award Events - New England Food Vision, SFLI, MSCW, Maine Fare, SMM.

Food Waste Prevention Strategy Not Preferred EPA Food Waste Hierarchy Preferred

CORE PILOT Smart Growth $250,000 A. Gleaning Initiative Core Activity Costs: $200,000/yr – Continue to increase farmer and gardener relations – Build in self-sustaining value creation – Provide TA to launch programs throughout Maine B. Subcontracting Business Consultants: $15,000 - FarmStart - CYON C. Social Business Pilot Projects: $35,000 / 3-6mo. – Test tech-based solutions for local food economy – Navigate myriad of resources for social business – Subsidize slow paced economic development

Providing valuable early experience feedback for the LeanPath Zap product development and market strategy Food Waste Tracking

Technology Drives Behavior

PILOT 2 - $10,000 Food Waste Prevention Phase 1 – Coordination of trial sites 2015 (Sept-Oct) LeanPath : 5 Food Waste Trackers / 10 food service Healthy Acadia : 30 site visits - Launch & Best Practices Phase 2 – Evaluation & Report (November) HCPC : 5 person days of Executive Director (UMCE) CYON : Organics Collection Opportunity Assessment Phase 3 - Feasibility Study of Organics Waste Diversion Jamien Richardson is wonderful at reflecting ideas back to farmers, in ways that lead to efficient projects

Spoiler Alert is a B2B food-tech solution for wasted food Creates an online marketplace for discounted food sales, food donations, and waste recovery opportunities Offers payment processing, documentation Open and closed network features: manage existing relationships or develop new ones Placing Surplus

Phase 1 - Spoiler Alert B2B food-tech solution trial SA Product Development: From Urban to Rural HA Onboard 45 seats (Farms, Distributors, HCFSN) FarmStart provides Wholesale Market Consulting PILOT 3 - $10,000 Surplus Management Phase 2 – Spoiler Alert Online Marketplace month extension of Spoiler Alert in Downeast, ME Evaluation and reporting economic opportunities You provide the passion; we'll help you structure and prune

Building a lasting partnership Gleaning Mainers Feeding Mainers Bulk CSA model for Farm-to-Institution Working with Drug Court Volunteers CYON consulting services under USDA SARE STAR ROOT FARM A Community Farming Model

Phase 1 – Refrigerated Storage (Sept-Oct) Star Root habilitates space for central storage HA tests the space for Gleaning and Spoiler Alert CYON provides Operational Plan for Aggregation PILOT 3 - $5,000 Aggregation & Star Root Farm Phase 2 – Assessing Food Hub Viability (May 2016) HA Partners with Distributors, Farmers, Institutions Star Root operates the Hub CYON analyses economic opportunities

Snack The Mobile Kitchen Serving Schools and Health Care to create a demand from within institutions for healthy snacks. Team: Kristyn E LePlante Anna Wind The Gleaning Initiative UMCE

Phase 1 – Equip The Mobile Kitchen (Sept-Nov) GSA supports 9am Healthy Snack Time Plan HA supports partner coordination and sourcing LePlante – The Mobile Kitchen Operational Plan PILOT 5 - $10,000 Packaged Healthy The Mobile Kitchen Phase 2 – Light Processing for Institutions (May 2016) HA Partners with UMCE to provide gleaned product The Mobile Kitchen partners with GSA and MCMH CYON - Business Planning Consulting

You had me at Zucchini! Hannah Semler (c) (o) fb: The Gleaning A Girl’s Got to Glean (blog)