Re: Gleaning

**R* M* M* <r*@comcast.net>**

Gleaning is alive and well in Oregon's Willamette Valley. The gleaners go out and harvest, they keep a percentage and It's either 25% or 33% and the remainder goes to the food bank. Often people have good fruit or nut trees and will call the gleaners to come in and harvest. It's also used for other foods but usually those are processed..donuts etc., still for hungry people they meet a need. The program fits well with Plant A Row. I want to see the film, thanks for the tip.
Rose Marie Nichols McGee
Nichols Garden Nursery
On Sep 10, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Betty Mackey wrote:

> I just saw an amazing film, "The Gleaners and I," by Agnes Varda, rented from Netflix.
> 
> Varda is a well-known French filmmaker who went out with her handheld video camera to interview people gleaning in grain fields, potato fields when the oddly shaped rejects are dumped by the truckload, urban market sites, oyster beds, vinyards, and more,  in various parts of France. It is shocking how much good food goes to waste there. The huge and unthrifty USA has to be far worse.
> 
> Some gleaners were poor, some were charitable, and some were simply objecting to waste in a world where people go hungry.
> 
> In France, regional laws dating back many centuries still protect the rights of gleaners but this is changing.
> 
> Do our mega farms allow gleaning? Smaller farms? I know there are gleaning organizations that pick leftovers for food pantries in some regions. Do any of you have experience with this?
> 
> Betty
> www.mackeybooks.com 

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