tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508894650834872844.post4095679133621032064..comments2024-02-20T13:39:45.872-05:00Comments on Little Merry Sunshine: Can You Help Spread Thanksgiving Cheer?Little Merry Sunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01260823112620938983noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508894650834872844.post-6267790594445339902008-11-21T11:09:00.000-05:002008-11-21T11:09:00.000-05:00Thanks for sharing your personal story GG. I did ...Thanks for sharing your personal story GG. I did not know about gleening, but how would I having grown up no where near a farm! I think it's so great that you still have a few of those beans and I bet that each time you look at them you are reminded just how far you've come and are humbled at the same time.<BR/><BR/>It's my belief that living through some of those really difficult times makes us more appreciative, compassionate and humble when we achieve success because we know of the sacrifice and back-breaking work it took to get there.<BR/><BR/>You are such an amazing woman and I have learned a great deal from you! Thank you!Little Merry Sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01260823112620938983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508894650834872844.post-3629654402637482102008-11-21T10:49:00.000-05:002008-11-21T10:49:00.000-05:00I give a hearty second to this! Helping others thr...I give a hearty second to this! Helping others through rough patches is so important. Especially for basic needs. Like you, this issue is very personal for me. For years after my parents' divorce, we lived off of government surples (like cheese and peanut butter) until they did away with that program. Then we moved onto hunting, foraging gardening, and gleening. Yes, gleening - going out into the fields after the farmer has harvested and picking what is left behind. We cleaned potatoes, cabbage, soybeans, corn, and turkeys (turkeys often have heart attacks while being loaded and the farmers will let you take them home, because they can't sell them). Once we went to a place that was growing kidney beans and asked the farmer if we could go out and gleen. And he got this sad look in his eye and said, "No, but hold on." And he went and got a clean 30 gallon garbage can and went to the silo and loaded it with beans. He had his farmhands load it in our truck. I still have some of those beans, just a few.GourmetGoddesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673545397406871152noreply@blogger.com