Our Mission

In Canada there is an abundant food supply, with a significant amount that remains unharvested or is deemed unmarketable. There are vast amounts of resources and materials discarded and wasted in Canada. The Prairie Gleaners Society recognizes this as an opportunity to glean from our ‘over abundance’ and help redistribute where the 'need' of others can be alleviated.

We will partner with reputable relief and Aid organizations to ship and distribute the produce to the people in need throughout the world.  

A shipping container to transport overseas

Potential product for a Gleaners Project in the Medicine Hat Area where surplus vegetables are dehydrated, packaged and transported for distribution to hungry people: 

• Culls from area Greenhouse industry (tomatoes and peppers) Several hundred pounds of culls go to the dump weekly

• Culls and rejects from field produced market garden industry 

• “Waste and spoiled” from area grocery stores

• Reject vegetables from packing plants in Southern Alberta

• Home gardeners (fruit and vegetables)

• Locally grown beans, barley and lentils and corn and potatoes

One of many greenhouses in Redcliff & area