July 5, 2018

Thank you to our community partner Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture at Woodlawn Plantation for inviting us to harvest the last of their spring greens last week!

Gleaning is the ancient custom of leaving part of a crop in the field for the poor, widows, and orphans to harvest. AFAC gleans (harvests) crops at area farms and orchards throughout the summer and fall months. We welcome your help. Contact volunteer4afac@afac.org if you want to bring your company for a group event. If you know of a farm or orchard where crops cannot be brought to market (too small, too large, misshapen, or simply "not perfect), let us know so we might contact the owner to inquire about gleaning with them. 

Thank you to the following Eagle Scouts for their help at AFAC's Plot Against Hunger gardens and gardens of community partners in the past few months: Liam O'Casey (extensions of raised beds at the Walter Reed Annex Garden, 2060 S. Walter Reed Drive, pictured right), Drew Kellenberger (raised beds at Bu-Gata for the Buckingham Youth Brigade and Buckingham Apartments community); Max Kappler (fencing at Arlington Central Library). 

For more Plot Against Hunger updates, visit (and join) our official Plot Against Hunger Facebook group! Latest postings include updates from our Walter Reed Garden, Arlington Central Library, and Marymount University's garden - run by their Food For Thought club.

Thank you to Congressman Seth Moulton and his staff ( pictured right) for returning to AFAC to volunteer at our warehouse, where they bagged apples and potatoes. Thank you for your continued support!

Huge thanks to Jamestown Elementary School's 5th Graders for their donation of 1,074 pounds of breakfast cereal! 

Thank you to Bean, Kinney, Korman for collecting 676 pounds of cereal.

Thanks to AFAC volunteer Joe Humphrey and friends for holding a food drive at Giant Food on South Glebe Rd last weekend that brought in 481 pounds of food!

Thank you to United Community Ministries for donating 438 pounds of infant formula.

Thank you to all those who held food drives or donated to Plot Against Hunger!

10th & Barton Community Garden, Accenture Federal Services, American Trucking Association, Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, Arlington Church of the Brethren, Arlington Community Church & Garden, Arlington Lodge #58, Arlington Public School's Syphax Center, Bethel UCC, Central Library & Garden, Cherrydale Branch Library, Clarendon Presbyterian & Garden, Coldwell Banker, Crystal Square Apartments, Cub Scout Pack #164, The Finney Foundation, First Presbyterian Church & Garden, George Laumann's Garden, Girl Scout Troop #2663 & #3975, Grace Community Church Garden, H-B Woodlawn Garden, The Holistic Point, Jacobs Engineering Group, John Lyon VFW Post 3150, Kenmore Middle School, Marymount University's "Food For Thought" Garden Club, Northern Virginia Catholic Community, NRECA, Oakridge Elementary Food Drive, The Outreach Program, Potomac Overlook Garden, The Prime Apartments, Reevesland Learning Center Garden, Restoration Anglican Church, Rock Spring UCC & Garden, Roy Croom, Sinclair Farm CSA, SNAC International, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church & Garden, St. Ann's Catholic Church & Garden, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Stephen & Nisha Pryor's CSA, Sunrise Retirement, Territory Foods, US Tae Kwon Do College, Walter Reed Garden, Women's Club of Arlington

Many thanks to the farmers' markets and vendors in Arlington who donate unsold fresh and local produce to AFAC all summer. Participating farmers markets include Arlington Courthouse, Ballston, Columbia Pike, Crystal City, Fairlington, Marymount, and Westover.

Big thanks to the Arlington Public Schools that donate healthy snacks on a weekly basis as a part of the Food Bus program this year: Abingdon ES, Arlington Science Focus ES, Arlington Traditional ES, Discovery ES, McKinley ES, Nottingham ES, Tuckahoe ES, and Temple Rodef Shalom's Religious School.