ABOUT US

In 1983, in British Columbia’s Creston Valley, three ladies had a dream: to collect food from local farmers and share it with families in need. Gleaners started as a humble food bank. As people donated clothing and household items and sought our help, we expanded our services.

Over the past 26 years, we have survived two fires, a flood and seven relocations. We built a new facility in 2000. We are now a provincially-registered society. With time, we’ve become more resilient, and determined to help make our community a better place for all of us.

Early in 2008, Creston Valley Gleaners Society realized that we had become such a success, that we were overwhelmed with items for resale... literally ran out of room and were hauling items to the refuse site, items that could have been resold. It was at that same time that we were offered a building, at a price we could not ignore.

Gleaners' reluctantly took out a large mortgage to purchase this property, which has become known as Gleaners Too. Having limited funding, we renovated a large portion of the building. Our original plans were to have this area as storage and recycling space, but we quickly realized that we could much better utilize the space by moving all household, furniture and book sales to this area.

Upon applying for and generously receiving a large grant from Columbia Basin Trust, Gleaners was able to complete the rest of our total renovation dream.