Photo by Mrs. Donnelly
I did gleaning on community service day, and it was really fun. Franny and I filled at least 60 bags of sweet potatoes. When we first got there, I was like, “The fields are huge!” but we only went gleaning on one of them (which was the bigger one). Only a few seconds in and I hear Franny screaming, “Sylvia, look at this one, it’s huge!” when I was just opening the bag. Within the first five minutes, we had three bags filled and in the truck. Within an hour, we had about 35 bags filled. I lost track after twelve bags. I didn’t know we were going to get that many, and some people got over 100. When we had to leave I felt good about how many bags Franny and I filled, and I was also really thirsty!
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I liked how you described gleaning and how you felt throughout the time. Did you fill more in the begging and get tired in the end? What was your favorite part of gleaning?
Yes we filled a lot of bags in the beginning, my favorite part was finding all the sweet potatoes and putting them in a big pile.