This guide helps gleaning organizations manage legal risks and liabilities to protect their organization by answering some of the most common liability questions.
Introduction
Managing legal risks or liabilities is one important way to protect your gleaning organization and ensure its longevity, and knowing the source and nature of potential risks is the first step to managing them. Read this guide to learn about some of the most common liability questions for gleaning organizations.
Acknowledgments
This factsheet is presented by the National Gleaning Project, a partnership of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School and the Association of Gleaning Organizations. We thank Olivia Burton MFALP’21 for support, and the organizations who shared their photographs: Salvation Farms and the Eden Gleaning Project and Garden Project affiliated with Eden Seminary.
Suggested Citation
Legal Questions & Answers Liability for Gleaning Organizations, Ass’n of Gleaning Orgs. (2022), https://nationalgleaningproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Gleaning_Liability_fact.pdf.
