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Gleaners fill need by cutting down on waste.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 525 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Gleaners fill need by cutting down on waste.(Food)(Groups of gatherers relish the labor involved in feeding themselves and those less able)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

The word "gleaning" conjures images of people scouring farms for crops that regular harvesters have left behind, but today's gleaners range much farther afield.

Lane County's 1,100 gleaners are as likely to gather salmon from fish farms and firewood from storm-downed trees as they are to comb local blueberry fields for leftover fruit.

And they aren't limited to commercial growers. Homeowners occasionally invite gleaners to harvest from backyard fruit trees or overproducing...

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