The glean on May 30th took place at one of the fields of Tanimura and Antle in Chualar. We had the big truck and gleaned 14 bins of delicate head and robust romaine lettuce. We had to carry our crates a little farther than usual, but had a dedicated groups of carriers who brought us empty crates and carried our full ones back to the truck. The field had been watered recently, so our shoes picked up more and more black mud and got heavier and heavier. The weather was overcast. The wind came up as we gleaned. There was a wonderful spirit of camaraderie.
Listen to stories from the May 30 glean
Highlights: Arizona "Snowbird" retirees swarming "like ants at a picnic" over produce spilled off a truck (Mark Adamek); huge piles of under-sized apricots gasolined and burned near Paris (Eva Lothar); widows and nimble-handed orphans gleaning after the harvest in Manchurian China (Belle Yang); and a banker doing "just about anything you can do to a cow" on the family dairy to put herself through college (Jennifer Millican).
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