Happy New Year! Apologies for the long holiday hiatus. More soon, but for now, enjoy this fantastically interesting Economist article on the practice of gleaning:
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/22/the-return-of-gleaning-in-the-modern-world
“The scale of the practice may have changed out of all recognition, but the philosophy—almost a theology—of gleaning remains the same. It completes and expands the harvest, so that the greatest possible number can share in it, especially the poor.”