gleaning
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- History
- In the Bible
- Rabbinical view
- Historic European practice
- Modern times
- Gleaning in art
- Woolgathering
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- Ecological gleaning
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thumb|right|The Gleaners by [[Jean-François Millet, 1857]]
Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops in the field after harvest. During harvest, there is food that is left or missed often because it does not meet store standards for uniformity. Sometimes, fields are left because they were not economically profitable to harvest.