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| On July 10 1999, 17 people traveled
from Jefferson to Papa John's Farm near Odenton, Maryland in Anne Arundel
County to glean a cabbage field. Once there, we joined 8 other people
from Baltimore and Silver Spring. We worked for about 2 hours and
gleaned over 6 tons of cabbages. To put the gleaning opportunity
into perspective, we gleaned about one third of the two fields that were
available to us.
Papa John's Farm is under contract with Giant Food, and the field had already been harvested of all cabbages that met the Giant restrictions (usually dealing with size -- cabbages that were much larger than softballs were left in the fields). We left Jefferson about 7:45 AM and got to the gleaning site around 9:00 AM. We gleaned until about 11 or 11:30, had lunch (which we brought with us) and then came home. We were back in Jefferson before 2:00 PM. The cabbages were distributed to various food banks and soup kitchens in Baltimore and Washington. We also brought back cabbages for distribution in our own food bank. |
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