Boston Area Farm Gleaning Project was started in 2004. See the project's website, www.bostonareagleaners.org for details. With just a volunteer coordinator busy with other projects and a mini van, the Project gleaned and donated to charity the following: in 2004 290 boxes, estimated over 7,000 pounds! That year the coordinator had a very able assistant, who unfortunately had to return to Greece the following year. In 2005 gleaning crews harvested 148 boxes of produce for charity, over 3,000 pounds, and in 2006 226 boxes, about 4,250 pounds. The figures for 2007 haven't been calculated yet, but for some examples: 45 quarts or strawberries and over 20 boxes of peaches gleaned from Dick's Market Garden in Lunenburg and donated to Rosie's Place and the Pine Street Inn in July; over 1,200 ears of corn from Dick's and Parker Farm (Dick's ears were too small, and Parker had two fields become ripe at once) very much appreciated at Sandra's Lodge Shelter in Waltham; AME Food Pantry volunteers, half-way house young adults, and regular volunteers gleaned over 40 boxes of apple drops from Nicewicz Orchard in Bolton and Kimball Fruit Farm in Pepperell mostly taken to Food For Free, a Cambridge food bank that delivers to over 50 hunger relief programs; recently crews have gleaned cabbages, bok choi, collards and kale from Hutchins and Verrill Farms in Concord. Unfortunately the early freezes and snow of early December have put an end to 2007 gleaning, unlike last year when we gleaned into January!! There is a lot of potential for the future. The coordinator estimates we could glean quadruple with organization and resources!! This entry written in 2007. We doubled the farm gleaning in 2008 and 2009. 665 boxes and 22,225 pounds in 2009! Add to that approximately 11,350 pounds donated from farmers, principally produce seconds after the Arlington Farmers Market. Then we began a program of retail store gleaning, and salvaged over 50,000 pounds in 2009!