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\u201cAll those delicious Brussels sprouts, rotting!\u201d I griped to my brother about a neighbor\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n

He shrugged and said, \u201cGet used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In rural western Washington, not everything gets harvested. Something is always<\/em> left over. There may be no time to cut something or no place to store it. Too much or too little rain. Too many or too few warm dry days. Nobody to pick. Or nobody to buy, if a crop tastes good but looks horrible, or because the same crop ripened elsewhere first\u2014like potatoes in Idaho, this year\u2014and the supermarket buyers have already filled their contracts.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m glad the word gleaning <\/em>has busted out of the Bible color plate of Ruth in Boaz\u2019s field and is elbowing its way into national consciousness. \u00a0When I promised my mother in March<\/a>\u00a0 that the fruit trees on our farm wouldn\u2019t just rot on the ground, I didn\u2019t know I\u2019d discover a national movement to connect what\u2019s left in fields with food pantries and soup kitchens. After I tracked down Harvest for Hope of Skagit<\/a>, which organizes and dispatches gleaners in our valley, I read Nancy Michaelis’s blog about Ample Harves<\/a>t, matching gardeners and food banks on the national level.<\/p>\n

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Not the image I remember, but the right gleaning story!<\/p><\/div>\n

This fall I\u2019ve been living by Ample Harvest\u2019s slogan: \u201cNo food left behind!\u201d On a bike errand, I stopped to pick a bag of carrots declared too homely to sell by their growers. Every couple of days I help myself to zinnias and sunflowers whose flower farmer stopped cutting and told me, \u201cEnjoy!\u201d Gleaning for Harvest for Hope, I made new friends and froze a fall of beans for me. Harvest for Hope accepted the 12 pounds of beans I gleaned from my landlady\u2019s garden and will accept the last of the apples from our family tree. (Thank goodness, because apples are the zucchini of Washington state: so plentiful you can\u2019t give them away.)<\/p>\n

At one end of this gleaning stand the field, the farmer, and the willing volunteer. At the other end must be cooks and canners\u2014people who can prepare and preserve food\u2014as well as food pantries with freezers, refrigerators, and efficient distribution systems. Without this important element, the beans I glean in Mt. Vernon will rot somewhere else. Fortunately a couple of activists helped persuade US food pantries to retool themselves <\/a>to accept and distribute fresh produce. Goodbye, commodity cheese. Hello, beets and carrots.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanning is the new knitting,\u201d someone said recently. And just in time, because almost everybody has forgotten how. Food preservation classes are popping up everywhere as people like me decide to recover the lost skills of freezing, canning and dehydrating. Or how to use every single scrap of a vegetable, as the New York Times<\/em> feature\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s not trash, that\u2019s dinner!\u201d<\/a> demonstrates.<\/p>\n

Now if only I can convince my neighbor to let me glean her Brussels sprouts\u2026<\/p>\n

Anne Basye, Sustaining Simplicity<\/em>
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