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Yesterday afternoon a lot of the sixth grade advisories went to glean sweet potatoes for community service. We went to glean sweet potatoes just outside of Raleigh with the Society of St. Andrew. Gleaning is basically picking sweet potatoes and then putting them in the bag. All of the potatoes that we picked went to smaller communities around Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Durham, and them some of them went to larger networks that distributed sweet potatoes to families around the triangle area. It was hard work, but if you gleaned with friends it was a lot more fun. I gleaned 150 pounds of sweet potatoes in an hour and a half. The hardest part of gleaning was putting the potatoes in the bag. Often times I had to ask my friends for help and have them put the potatoes in the bag for me. Another difficulty was tying the knot on the bag. Over all it was fun, and I liked gleaning with my friends to help the community.
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Wow! 150 pounds of sweet patoes! In an half of hour! Great job, I enjoyed reading you article I agree it made it ten times more fun when you talked to your friends and picked potatoes!
Thanks for commenting! I thought it was a different way to help out the community than what most schools do. What was your community service project last year?
I liked your post, Kay!!!!! It was really fun gleaning with you, even if the bags didn’t like us!!!!!!!! ;D
Thanks! For some reason the bag really didn’t like me! Did anyone else experience that, because I found it really hard to get the potatoes into the bags!
That bag just didn’t listen to me, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was soooooooooooooooooooo annoying!!!!!
150 lbs is a LOT of taters! That would be a couple helpings of sweet potato fries, for sure… Yum!
Wow!!! 😱 150 impressive! 👍
Thanks!