Comments on: A Farmer Muses on the Art of Gleaning

By: pcrossfield

pcrossfield — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:18:46 +0000

Hi, ghostwriter, the author is Daniel Botkin, who is credited in a bio following the post.

By: ghostwriter

ghostwriter — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:57:46 +0000

Hey did I miss something? I didn’t see any credit given to the writer of this post.

Great article! I wonder how much food ‘waste’ is being pushed into dumpsters in every town around this country. Maybe a civil Dumpster Diving Corp. is in order, modeled in the manner of the international Peace Corps. Not a bad idea …

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:24:25 +0000

I second that – “The Gleaners and I”, by Agnes Varda.

I also just listened to this – http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1258 – excellent episode of This American Life – where in act 3, Dirk Jamison chronicles the beginning of his father’s habit of dumpster diving. Quite lovely in it’s meditations on the proprieties we cling to, perhaps while sacrificing our freedom.

Thank-you for this thoughtful post.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:22:25 +0000

I am happy to hear that gleaning exists in the U.S. Of course, I realized that some forms (urban gleaning, gleaning sidewalks littered with discarded treasures, gleaning one’s own garden, public fruit trees, etc.) existed, but I was uncertain of gleaning private fields after harvests. You’ve begun the work for me, but it is a shelved project to research more into the laws concerning gleaning in the U.S. I would like to see more gleaning benefiting the poor and hungry.

My gleaning interests were sparked by Agnès Varda’s documentary “Les glaneurs et la glaneuse,” which I highly recommend to any and all!