was camping at onion harvest time

[bigsallysmom]

Stayed at Percha Dam State Park in New Mexico a couple of days ago.  The nearby field was full of onions being harvested the old fashioned back breaking way.  The too small and too large was left in the field.  We asked the owner for permission to pick some and he said sure.  We collected a large ice chest full and are giving them away to neighbors. 
makes me want to know when the sweet corn is ready.

 

[CautionToTheWind]

So silly to leave perfectly good food. That's where the food supply has gone; "just right color, shape and size" otherwise discard.

This just gets under my skin.

Anyway, glad to hear you were able to scrounge around.

 

[djkeev]

Back in Biblical times it was known as "gleaning" and was a form of welfare, feeding the poor among us. It was expected that people would come after the harvest and take what they could find.

Dave

 

[jimindenver]

There are none profits that do gleaning for food banks.

 

[MrNoodly]

Gilroy, California, is the self-proclaimed garlic capital. At harvest time, trucks with big open-top trailers piled high haul garlic from the fields, and bulbs fall onto the road where they get run over. It's either a glorious or terrible smell, depending on your opinion of garlic.

 

[rvwandering]

We have friends who stop and ask about the vegetables left in the fields when they see a harvest in progress. Often they are given vegetables or told that they can pick what they want. The lettuce and broccoli on the free pile at the last RTR was a gift from them.
Don't pick any without asking though. It would probably be considered theft even though no one is going to pick it.