This comes from a newsletter article I wrote for RMC's November Newsletter...
On Saturday, October 17th at 7:30am 18 RMC members and friends gathered in the parking lot to head to Johnston County to glean Sweet Potatoes. We joined others from around the Triangle at the Society of St. Andrew's annual "Yam Jam" to glean food for the local food bank and other agencies in the area (http://www.endhunger.org/). Gleaning is a biblical principle of taking the leftovers from the harvest for those in need. It is mentioned in Leviticus 19:9-10; Leviticus 23:22; and Deuteronomy 24:21. Gleaning is most well known from the book of Ruth.
We had fun and helped make a difference at the same time! After a good morning of hard work digging, bagging, and transporting potatoes to the trucks, we had lunch and headed back home. We left the field with a little more dirt in our shoes than when we started, and the satisfaction of knowing that some people who struggle to have enough food are now able to enjoy nutritious sweet potatoes that would have otherwise remained in the fields to rot.
Afterwords the Society of St. Andrew sent us thanks:
"Thanks for making Yam Jam a Huge Success!
This is what you helped accomplish :)
We had 829 volunteers (that’s the biggest number yet!).
We collected 84,010 pounds of sweet potatoes.
We distributed them to more than 50 agencies around the Triangle and beyond!
That means our volunteers filled about 10 bags each, and helped give 252,030 servings of fresh, nutritious sweet potatoes to our neighbors in need."
Recently I ran across this article about Gleaning. Check it out...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1102/p07s01-lign.html
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