Connections: COMMUNITY GLEANING

摘要

THEY say that everything old is new again. While I'm still waiting for that to happen on a personal level, it is happening with the term "gleaning." More recent definitions of gleaning refer to ways of gaining information or other things from multiplesources or over time. The historical definition also focuses on gathering but here what is gathered is edible. Food left in a field after harvest is gleaned. There is a painting by Jean-Francois Millet from 1857 called the Gleaners showing peasants gathering grain in a field after harvest.