1. Slow Money Maine, July 2015 New England Food Vision 2015

3. 14 years HMP 23 employees 2 counties 1.4 million FY 14

4. 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

5. 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

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

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

8. 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. 2015 Events - New England Food Vision, SFLI, MSCW, Maine Fare, SMM.

9. Food Waste Prevention Strategy Not Preferred EPA Food Waste Hierarchy Preferred

10. 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

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

12. Technology Drives Behavior

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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 2016 6 month extension of Spoiler Alert in Downeast, ME Evaluation and reporting economic opportunities You provide the passion; we'll help you structure and prune

16. 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

17. 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 & Distribution @ 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

18. Snack Time @ 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

19. 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 Snacks @ 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

20. You had me at Zucchini! Hannah Semler hannah@healthyacadia.org (c) 207-8128265 (o) 207-6677171 fb: The Gleaning Initiative @gleaning_initiative www.healthyacadia.org/initiatives A Girl’s Got to Glean (blog)