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Waste Not, Want Not - Gleaning in Washington, D.
C
In the battle against food waste and hunger, the ancient tradition of gleaning is gaining new admirers
around America.
Kathleen Maloney on how it s changed the D.
C.
food system.
With the rise of...
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Waste Not, Want Not - Gleaning in Washington, D.
C
In the battle against food waste and hunger, the ancient tradition of gleaning is gaining new admirers
around America.
Kathleen Maloney on how it s changed the D.
C.
food system.
With the rise of obesity levels and food prices in the U.
S.
, very little attention has been paid to the
efforts of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who salvage millions of pounds of fresh food
every year by gleaning-the collection of food left behind from a harvest-which provides those in
need with free or inexpensive healthy produce they otherwise would have no access to.
Parker Farms in Oak Grove, Virginia, has been welcoming gleaning groups since the late 1980s, to
gather what is left behind from the harvests.
"The biggest value to the farm is that product that was
raised for the purpose of consumption, is consumed," said Rod Parker, general manager, who added
that much of the food gleaners gather was initially left behind for purely cosmeti
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