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Gleaning to feed the hungry

Posted March 26th, 2019

Erica, it’s simple. People who grow food have too much, while some people go hungry. There must be a way to get the excess produce from the growers to the hungry. There was a way, and my friend John Walker called it “gleaning”— a biblical practice of leaving some of your crops in the field for the poor.