Welcome to the new gleaning season! We are grateful for all who were able to attend the LocalShare volunteer meeting in May. Volunteers are at the core of the LocalShare program and we are thankful for returning volunteers and extend a warm welcome to new ones! Thanks...

The Foodshed Alliance's LocalShare program was recognized for its work at the intersection of hunger and food waste with awards from Project Self-Sufficiency and Trinity Church of Hackettstown. Over the past three years LocalShare has brought together farmers, food...

Volunteers from LocalShare, a program of the Foodshed Alliance  recently spent two hours gleaning vegetables from Caristi Farm in Blairstown. Thanks to volunteers Linda Rasmussen, Lianne Markus and Christine Parauda, they harvested 62 pints mixed yellow and orange...

What do you do when someone drops 5,000 pounds of potatoes at your door? It sounds like the setup for a corny joke, but that’s exactly what recently happened to LocalShare, the food rescue project of the nonprofit Foodshed Alliance. And when it did, they knew exactly...

Summer is here! With the arrival of this glorious season comes an abundance of squash, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, cucs and more! It’s finally time! Do you have more than your family can use? Are your neighbors beginning to suspect that you’re the one leaving bags of...

If you believe, like we do, that everyone deserves good, fresh food, regardless of their means, then join us at Marley's Gotham Grill in Hackettstown for drink and food specials and little fun. This informal networking event will inform you about LocalShare program,...

With the certainty of spring just around the corner, LocalShare volunteers teamed up with members of the First Presbyterian Church in Blairstown NJ this month for a presentation of LocalShare’s GIFT program. Donned in her tool apron and with a trowel in hand, Karen...

Friday, March 14, 2014 - Starting at 7:00 pm Knowlton Methodist Church,  509 Route 94, Columbia NJ  (directions) Goodies and Discussion following the showing of the film. Free will donations welcome. Hosted by the LocalShare- GIFT Program (a program of the Foodshed...

The boys' and girls' basketball teams from Blair Academy answered the shout-out from LocalShare and recently spent an afternoon gleaning 544 pounds of turnips from Caristi Farm in Blairstown. Gleaning is an age-old practice where people gather the useful remnants of a...

The next meeting of the LocalShare Planning Committee is Monday, December 16, 2013, at 7 p.m. It will be held at the Foodshed Alliance office at 16 Main Street, Blairstown, NJ. For more information, please contact Kendrya Close.