http://www.nelsoncountylife.com/2009/03/22/the-big-potato-drop-32209/ Nelson County Life Magazine : Your Source for Everything Nelson Sat, 19 May 2012 19:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.nelsoncountylife.com/2009/03/22/the-big-potato-drop-32209/comment-page-1/#comment-3023 Carol Breitinger Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:29:18 +0000 http://www.nelsoncountylife.com/?p=11700#comment-3023 The Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) is a national faith-based nonprofit hunger relief organization. It’s national headquarters are in Central Virginia (Big Island), where it was founded 30 years ago. SoSA is the largest gleaning organization in the nation. With the help of 30,000-40,000 volunteers each year SoSA gleans 20-40 million pounds of excess fresh produce every year and donates it to food banks, pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other critical feeding agencies. Gleaning in farm fields and orchards is done in 20 states and SoSA delivers bulk loads (Potato Drops) of donated produce, primarily potatoes, to all 48 contiguous states. Since it began gleaning, the Society of St. Andrew has saved more than half a billion pounds of perfectly good, fresh produce that would have gone to waste because it was not commercially marketable — it was left in fields after the harvest or it was culled out because it was the wrong shape, size, color or had minor blemishes. This food would have rotted in the fields or been dumped in landfills, but instead, it provided 1.7 billion servings of nourishing food to the nation’s hungry. Learn more about the Society of St. Andrew and how you can help bridge the gap between perfectly good food that goes to waste and the hungry who don’t have enough to eat: http://www.endhunger.org. The Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) is a national faith-based nonprofit hunger relief organization. It’s national headquarters are in Central Virginia (Big Island), where it was founded 30 years ago. SoSA is the largest gleaning organization in the nation. With the help of 30,000-40,000 volunteers each year SoSA gleans 20-40 million pounds of excess fresh produce every year and donates it to food banks, pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other critical feeding agencies. Gleaning in farm fields and orchards is done in 20 states and SoSA delivers bulk loads (Potato Drops) of donated produce, primarily potatoes, to all 48 contiguous states. Since it began gleaning, the Society of St. Andrew has saved more than half a billion pounds of perfectly good, fresh produce that would have gone to waste because it was not commercially marketable — it was left in fields after the harvest or it was culled out because it was the wrong shape, size, color or had minor blemishes. This food would have rotted in the fields or been dumped in landfills, but instead, it provided 1.7 billion servings of nourishing food to the nation’s hungry. Learn more about the Society of St. Andrew and how you can help bridge the gap between perfectly good food that goes to waste and the hungry who don’t have enough to eat: http://www.endhunger.org.

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