Gleaning: The ancient practice fighting modern food waste

Grist
By Natasha Khullar RelphJan 24, 2025, 4:30 am182 pts
The three women in the painting stoop low in the field, their hands reaching for leftover stalks of wheat. Their bent figures dominate the foreground, emphasizing the physical toll of their labor. Jean-François Millet’s The Gleaners, painted in 1857, immortalized this act of necessity: gleaning, the…

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