If you remember my blog from last year, I talked about gleaning, and the joy (and food) it brought to our family. It was a way for me to meet people within the community, a way for me to connect with my family during our picking sessions, and a way for me to use up fruit that would have otherwise fallen to the ground and dissapeared back into the earth.
This year I am kicking it up a notch. I am taking gleaning to the next level if you will; and doing it, with the kindness of others in the community, for a good cause.
That is where the Transition House Foundation comes in. I first got involved with the THF last year when they needed a website. I built them one in exchange for a table at their Girls Night Out yearly event. The people behind the organisation, and their goals were so great, that I wanted to something more for them. But understood that they are stretched for woman power and time as it is!
The mandate of Transition House Foundation is to raise money to support projects and programs of Cape Breton Transition House (a safe haven for abused women and their children), to acquire money or furnishings and goods for use in Cape Breton Transition House and to conduct public education projects.
Monies raised by the Foundation are used for emergency funds; comfort allowance; purchasing furniture etc. for the shelter; providing a clean and safe environment for our clients; providing a Christmas party for Outreach clients and many other items; as well as assisting with the education program in the school system.
We have had the farmers coop, and a few local grocery stores chip in with some of the jars and supplies needed- which helps more of the money go strait to the Transition House. And the Cape Breton Farmers’ Market has donated their certified kitchen to the cause.
This year we are starting small- we are going to do a cranberry sauce for thanksgiving, as well as an apple butter and a plum jam in successive weeks.
With the help and donations of a few good farmers, residents, and businesses, we will be gleaning, preserving and selling the finished products at the two crows farm booth at the farmers' market and in other interested spots.
So, if anyone out there has time, resources or fruit they would like to contribute you can use the contact page on this website to get ahold of me.
This year I am kicking it up a notch. I am taking gleaning to the next level if you will; and doing it, with the kindness of others in the community, for a good cause.
That is where the Transition House Foundation comes in. I first got involved with the THF last year when they needed a website. I built them one in exchange for a table at their Girls Night Out yearly event. The people behind the organisation, and their goals were so great, that I wanted to something more for them. But understood that they are stretched for woman power and time as it is!
The mandate of Transition House Foundation is to raise money to support projects and programs of Cape Breton Transition House (a safe haven for abused women and their children), to acquire money or furnishings and goods for use in Cape Breton Transition House and to conduct public education projects.
Monies raised by the Foundation are used for emergency funds; comfort allowance; purchasing furniture etc. for the shelter; providing a clean and safe environment for our clients; providing a Christmas party for Outreach clients and many other items; as well as assisting with the education program in the school system.
We have had the farmers coop, and a few local grocery stores chip in with some of the jars and supplies needed- which helps more of the money go strait to the Transition House. And the Cape Breton Farmers’ Market has donated their certified kitchen to the cause.
This year we are starting small- we are going to do a cranberry sauce for thanksgiving, as well as an apple butter and a plum jam in successive weeks.
With the help and donations of a few good farmers, residents, and businesses, we will be gleaning, preserving and selling the finished products at the two crows farm booth at the farmers' market and in other interested spots.
So, if anyone out there has time, resources or fruit they would like to contribute you can use the contact page on this website to get ahold of me.
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