Oct 27, 2023 | Gleaning
By Colleen Bauman(Written during blueberry season.)I’m enjoying being a Gleaner. Besides my once a month volunteer job picking up and delivering bread from a local bakery for the Gleaner family, I go on the occasional glean in the fields. Yesterday, it was...
Sep 29, 2023 | Gleaning
In 2019, Qynne McKibben, Julia McAloon, and the founder of Eugene Area Gleaners, Brandy Collier, tabled at the “Nature of Gratitude” gathering at Tsunami Bookstore. Brandy was invited onstage to speak for a few minutes. This is a sliver of Brandy’s...
Sep 26, 2018 | Gleaning
Covered In Bees I have a complex relationship with bees. My name means “little bee”, so I grew up identifying with them. I was told as a child that the bumblebee defied physics… That they defied all natural laws every time they took flight. No one...
Sep 8, 2018 | Gleaning
The Village Feast In time out of mind, every meal was cause for celebration. People who returned to their hut, cave or cliff dwelling with food were hailed as conquering heroes, and rightly so. Our early history was a tough time to be alive, or rather, to stay that...
Aug 24, 2018 | Gleaning
Learning What We Used To Know So, I’m new to the notion of gleaning, and to living a life where I can make a choice about where my food comes from. Bigger cities are a special kind of “food desert”, where you can get anything at any time, as long as...
Mar 6, 2018 | Gleaning
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