What To Do With All Those Extra Cucumbers!!?

Share by gleaning and trading locally

By Karen Hansen and Muriel Strand

Gleaning—the ancient practice of picking over farm fields after the harvest—is making a comeback. Joe and Chris Miller’s fields at a Colorado farm were picked so clean in one day last November that a second day of gleaning was canceled Sunday after 40,000 people showed up the first day.

There are Gleaning Projects all around the nation.