benjonesdesign
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Hi everyone, I'm designing an app for farmers to control and manage their food waste. I would love it if you could answer the question below, there is no right answer.
Gleaning
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benjonesdesign
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@goodevans yes sorry It only applies to vegetable farmers
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
We have strict rules on child labour for a reason. I certainly dont want any part in slave labour.
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- DD9.
We’ve had some of the local kids round on the potato fields after lifting, mostly just get the little tatties or anything that’d grown outwith the beds/spilt. Once theyre finished up there’s a bbq at the pond and they take away what they’ve picked. Tidies up the land a bit and it’s funny how obsessive they get, leaving absolutely nothing behind. 
there’s no machinery anywhere near the field either, before anyone starts.
there’s no machinery anywhere near the field either, before anyone starts.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
We always used to go gleaning on the estate in the pea fields once the viners had left. We’d help my mother and aunt and cousins fill washing baskets full of pods, bring them home, pod them, blanch them and freeze them. Maybe 4 stone or so which kept us going. You had to ask the estate manager’s permission : the curiously named Mr Gass. Funny what sticks in your mind.
We’d also glean potatoes off land we let to commercial growers, round electric poles etc. Mother even sold them at the market.
When we grew our own potatoes we left nothing worth having.
We never thought of any of it as child slavery though we’d all be under ten years old. It was just a fun day out picking and eating peas and even 50 years on an abiding and happy childhood memory.
We’d also glean potatoes off land we let to commercial growers, round electric poles etc. Mother even sold them at the market.
When we grew our own potatoes we left nothing worth having.
We never thought of any of it as child slavery though we’d all be under ten years old. It was just a fun day out picking and eating peas and even 50 years on an abiding and happy childhood memory.
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
After opening their eyes to the possibilities of helping themselves, how long before a few enterprising people realise it is far more productive to go gleaning the night before the harvest crew arrive than the day after... 
- Location
- Lincolnshire
That’s the danger. But for most, veg is so cheap they wouldn’t bother to get off their arses to pick it even for free. I often drive past fields of unharvested blown caulis and busted cabbage thinking how much value has been wasted. Maybe if a cauliflower was £5 people would stop and pick one. But most folk don’t seem to have much use for raw veg anyway.After opening their eyes to the possibilities of helping themselves, how long before a few enterprising people realise it is far more productive to go gleaning the night before the harvest crew arrive than the day after...
renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
We gave up growing spuds next to the council estate as they would walk before you could harvest them.After opening their eyes to the possibilities of helping themselves, how long before a few enterprising people realise it is far more productive to go gleaning the night before the harvest crew arrive than the day after...