Okanagan Gleaners make soup to feed communities worldwide – Okanagan

The Okanagan Gleaners began their semi-annual vegetable soup packaging Tuesday to assist feed communities around the globe.

Volunteers are combining dried greens to make Gleaner’s Vegetable Soup, packaging it fastidiously to ship out to these in want.

“The time our mixing is completed on Nov. 6, we should always have near 7 to 7.5 million servings of meals that we’ve processed out of this little plant in Oliver,” mentioned Greg Masson, Okanagan Gleaners.

They’ve had a long time to excellent the meeting line, packing tomatoes, lentils, barley, beets, potatoes and some other greens given to them from farmers within the valley. They get meals that’s too massive on the market or too small or the fallacious color or too ripe to promote in a grocery retailer.

“We combine all of our substances right into a dehydrated dry combine, so in the present day for the subsequent two weeks, that’s what we’re doing. We’re taking our dried potatoes and our beets and carrots and we’re placing it into the 15-cup bag of dried greens after which that 15-cup bag will have the ability to present 100 meals,” mentioned Masson.

They at all times want extra volunteers, funds and meals donations. For extra details about easy methods to get entangled as a volunteer, electronic mail okgvolunteer@gmail.com or go to www.okanagangleaners.com

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