Extension’s Harvest for Hunger Program Reported

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756

The coastal Village Soup newspaper group carried a UMaine Cooperative Extension news release soliciting volunteer gardeners throughout the state to grow extra vegetables to donate to food pantries. Harvest for Hunger coordinator Barbara Murphy says the Extension’s Master Gardener Volunteers Program generated 200,000 pounds of produce last year and hopes this year to produce 225,000 pounds.