Pierce County Gleaning Project

Pierce County Gleaning Project
Tacoma, WA
ph: 253.584.1040
emily@efoodnet.org

Resources

National Center for Home Food Preservation. Most recent USDA guidelines available online and much more.

Food Preservation Basics - Just for Fun , a nice comprehensive set of links located on an unexpected place - a web site selling appliance parts!

Do it Yourself, a nicely illustrated collection of how-to descriptions on food preservation.

Pest Management

Pear Scab. City Fruit.

Coddling Moth. City Fruit.

Apple Maggot Fly. City Fruit.

Harvesting Fruit

Harvesting Apples from the BBC (England) gardening pages.

Build your own Tree Shaker, For those who would like to use the shake-and-catch method instead of a ladder for apricot, plums, and apples. Designed by Village Harvest volunteers to mimic the tree shakers that were used before mechanical shakers were developed.

Ladder-less Harvesting Techniques, Village Harvest publication summarizing different techniques that their volunteers have developed over the years.

Harvesting and Storing Tree Fruit, from Iowa State University Extension.

Apple ID. Wondering what type of apple tree you have? This is a great new resource from the Seattle Fruit Tree Society.

What is Backyard Orchard Culture, Published by Dave Wilson Nursery. Includes many ideas for high density planting, successive ripening and pruning in a backyard orchards

Our Documents

Where to Donate - Use this handy chart to find the food banks and hot meal sites in Pierce County closest to you that need and want your extra produce.

Fruit Harvest Volunteer Information - A guide for volunteers helping with our neighborhood fruit harvest.

Food Bank Garden Signs - Print up these signs, fill them out, and place in your community garden food bank plots or home gardens to advertise to other gardeners how easy it is to help our neighbors in need.

Fruit Tree Fliers - Print up these fliers to give to your neighbors who always never seem to know what to do with all of the fruit growing in their yards. Encourage them to contact us!

Volunteer Roles List - Interested in helping fight hunger in Pierce County? This is a list of the ways you can help our cause!

Giving Garden Tips - Developed by Solid Ground's Lettuce Link program in Seattle, this document gives any community and home gardener valuable advice on how to grow produce for their local food bank.

Local Websites

Pierce County Master Gardeners Program - Calendar of local gardening classes, great online resources for gardeners, and other helpful knowledge!

Grow Local Tacoma - Gardening resources, information about community gardens, and strategies on how to eat more locally.

City Fruit - Fruit Gleaning group in Seattle with wonderful fact sheets, including earth-friendly pest control for our biggest fruit tree pests, Apple Maggot Fly and Codling Moth.

Tacoma Food Coop - Support our local Co-Op!

Tacoma School Garden Network - A resource for all school gardens out there.

Solid Ground Lettuce Link - A similar organization in Seattle with many great resources on growing giving gardens.

Gardening with Ciscoe - Great website for local gardening guru Ciscoe Morris, who has a call-in gardening show on Saturdays from 10am-12pm at 97.3 KIRO FM.