GIVback: Gleaning Initiative Victoria

Who is GIVback? We are the Gleaning Initiative Victoria - a new community association dedicated to fighting farm-level food waste in Victoria.  Our goal is to create a 'gleaning' network in the greater Melbourne region. By working directly on farms, with local farmers, we will rescue surplus produce from going to waste by redistributing it, for free, to people experiencing food insecurity. What is gleaning? Gleaning is a centuries old practice: it is the act of gathering leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested. Historically, it is a process which supported fair distribution of resources within communities while preventing waste. We've taken this idea, modernised it and adapted it for the Victorian context: we will provide farmers with a free way of preventing surplus produce from going to waste by harvesting surplus produce in their fields and redistributing it to local charities that work with people experiencin...