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Summary Of Community Gleaning By Sally Brown

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Community Gleaning Summary
The article “Community Gleaning” was written by Sally Brown, which discusses the and how to reduce leftovers to local food banks by gleaning. At first, the reading explains the definition of the term “gleaning”, that is gathering something that can be eaten, such as the food left at the field will be gleaned. Gleaning is one of the best ways to collect extra food waste from food crops and fruit trees to provide to those in need. The author claims that the gleaning idea started at Tacoma, Washington in 2009 and it donated for local food banks for over 100,000 pounds of food in the same year. The article also describes how it works, the gleaning project’s successes, such as “fruit trees Tacoma provided 29,000 pounds
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