Starvation just isn’t a difficulty of charity. It is a matter of justice. ~ Jacques Diouf
Winery employees expertise excessive charges of meals insecurity attributable to low wages, unstable work, and excessive prices of dwelling, particularly in states like California. Many are immigrants and should face boundaries to accessing public help packages.
Additional Meals (extrafood.org), is a highly-effective non-profit group whose mission is to finish starvation and wasted meals within the Bay Space by way of their regional meals restoration packages. A type of packages, Share the Bounty, gleans additional and undesirable fruit and veggies from small farms and personal yard gardens and delivers that produce on to folks in want, normally bypassing conventional meals banks and pantries.
I’m happy to announce that Tiny Vineyards Wine Firm is working with Additional Meals to develop the same program that may glean extra grapes from small personal vineyards in Sonoma Valley and switch that harvest into premium wine that will probably be offered on to the general public beneath the label title Abundance. We’ve secured generously donated manufacturing companies and supplies by way of all levels of the winemaking course of (grape crushing and urgent, fermentation tanks, barrels, storage, bottling, gross sales web site) to ensure that 100% of the gross sales proceeds from the wine will probably be used to fund crucial meals deliveries.
Additional Meals will probably be focusing this system on native business winery employees in Sonoma Valley who’re experiencing meals insecurity due partly to a downturn within the trade, and the truth that many employees are afraid to go to native meals banks due to immigration enforcement
When you’ve got a small personal or business winery that you simply will not be harvesting this season, or that you simply imagine might need extra grapes, and also you want to donate that fruit to this effort…
….otherwise you want to volunteer to be on a enjoyable harvest crew and assist choose grapes from taking part vineyards, please contact me at wildfly.jed@gmail.com.
Our preliminary plan for this primary yr is to reap round two tons of fruit—most likely a giant discipline mix from a number of completely different vineyards—and make 100 instances of Abundance wine to be offered at $20 to $25 per bottle. Hopefully we will flip these wine gross sales into vital funding to immediately help Additional Meals’s distribution efforts.
Please get behind this effort nonetheless you’ll be able to. Regardless of the plain tangible advantages of elevating cash to facilitate unencumbered meals deliveries, there’s a sure righteous degree of poetic justice in supporting the parents who tended the vineyards and picked the grapes that went into that bottle of nice wine you loved along with your dinner!
