gleaners

In some villages of France and Germany, a certain day is fixed in the commune, when the gleaning is to begin; sometimes the church-bell rings, in other villages the beat of the drum calls the gleaners to the fields; peasant mothers, with their little children, boys and girls, old and infirm men and women, are seen in little parties moving toward the unfenced fields, and spreading themselves through the yellow stubble.

Rural Hours 1887

And in another report we had 40,000 US "gleaners" filling 80,000 4-6kg sacks with 250kg of vegetables - a minuscule 6g per person (Hard times bite in America, World page 28, November 26).

Craig Silverman: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections 2008 2009

Fong said that the "gleaners," or those who take out items from the cans, provide a service to the city by helping to keep more items out of the landfills.

The State Hornet 2009

And in another report we had 40,000 US "gleaners" filling 80,000 4-6kg sacks with 250kg of vegetables - a minuscule 6g per person (Hard times bite in America, World page 28, November 26).

Regret the Error 2009

And in another report we had 40,000 US "gleaners" filling 80,000 4-6kg sacks with 250kg of vegetables - a minuscule 6g per person (Hard times bite in America, World page 28, November 26).

Regret the Error 2009

Since I already had the Younger Poet, the Biographer, the Editor, the Critic, and the Encyclopedist as various human eddies in the wake of Frost's fame, and since I was implicitly critiquing the complex motives of all those gleaners who come after the real harvester, I felt it was only fair to admit that I am one, too.

Brian Hall - An interview with author 2010

Deuteronomy 22:19-22 involves the gleaners, those allowed to enter privately owned fields and take produce for their subsistence.

Brad Reid: Religious Themes In The Budget Debate Brad Reid 2011

But obstacles prevent more gleaning efforts, including a need for more volunteers and liability concerns from farmers worried that gleaners might be injured in their fields.

Food To Waste 2010

Join gleaners across the nation on Monday, September 20, 2010: 1. Invite your community and local farms to sponsor a gleaning on Monday, September 20th, 2010.

Annie Spiegelman: Glean, Baby, Glean! Annie Spiegelman 2010

When I think of her dying I still see that landscape, the bamboos swaying below the window, the valley beyond, the small farmhouses and the tawny fields, the late gleaners moving slowly across them, women and children in their peasant blue, and beyond them again the distant mountains.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010