Are we blind to what can be done? How many backyards in Western Society have fruit that is wasted and looks unseemly because there is no one to pick it. The owners cannot eat it all and may not be fit enough to sort it and pick it.
A teenager in California as part of “volunteering” at school, spotted this opportunity and decided to use his volunteering time to help backyard owners and at the same time collect and sort fruit that could be given to charitable organisations who provide food to those in need. Very often there is a shortage of “fresh” fruit , so the two really went hand in hand.
The success of the project has led to hundreds of student volunteers gathering fruit that would go to waste across the Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley. The project is now called “Glean on me”. Glean meaning collecting what would otherwise be left behind.
It’s a long way from the days that errant school children would break into orchards to steal fruit and going even further back would be severely punished for doing so.
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