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16. When we were broke the summer I lived in Oregon....

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 12:53 AM

Dec 2012

We would head to the strawberry patches and join the migrant workers to help make it through the week.

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A sign of the overwhelming poverty in the rural SE [View all] Whovian Dec 2012 OP

damn I've never seen that d_r Dec 2012 #1

Possibly. Not necessarily nolabear Dec 2012 #2

+1 lunasun Dec 2012 #3

Thanks. Gleaning is an old tradition in lots of rural areas. scarletwoman Dec 2012 #6

It's called "gleaning", and it's a millenia's old practice. scarletwoman Dec 2012 #4

I have done it myself for potatoes newfie11 Dec 2012 #9

Leviticus 19:10 On the Road Dec 2012 #10

Kicking for an edit to the OP. n/t Whovian Dec 2012 #11

I have been a gleaner for years. dem in texas Dec 2012 #12

I prefer the word "scrounge" to "glean"... Bigmack Dec 2012 #13

After spraying the herbicide everything dies and dries up. Whovian Dec 2012 #18

When we were broke the summer I lived in Oregon.... WCGreen Dec 2012 #16

japanese people call them edomome Mothdust Dec 2012 #19

Churches in the SE are organizing gleaners to take the slow food to food JanMichael Dec 2012 #20