“We always had to plant more than we could actually harvest ourselves,” Berman told The Huffington Post. And that led to the launch earlier this year of Long Table Harvest, a food recovery group. Today, gleaning is experiencing a resurgence of interest as Americans become aware of the estimated 70 billion pounds of food the country wastes each year. As a result, recovery groups like Long Table Harvest have popped up across the country ― the National Gleaning Project lists more than 400 food recovery organizations ― and are likely saving many tons of food from being left to rot in farmers’ fields or sent to landfills. It’s safe to assume these organizations, collectively, are preventing millions of pounds of produce from being tossed each year.

Source: Huffington Post August 13, 2016 12:13 UTC