Mavis Garden Blog – Mavis the Gleaner Finds Gold!

So yesterday after, finding all those onions hiding in the raspberry patch, I started to wonder what else I may have missed.  And that’s when it hit me.

Potatoes.  I need to go back and see if I missed any potatoes.  After all, the day I harvested the fall potatoes it was raining, and I was hurried.  So I went back through the dirt with a small hand tool this time {instead of a shovel}, and after 30 minutes of searching,  guess what I found?

4 pounds 12 ounces of gleaned goodness baby!  Wahooooo!

Keep your fingers crossed, because I seriously want to rip up all that kale as soon as possible!

~Mavis

If you don’t mind French subtitles, you should get your hands on a copy of the Documentary The Gleaners and I.*

Traditionally, as in the archetypal Millet painting, gleaners were women who gathered the remains of the harvest; their modern counterparts are mostly scavengers, searching in dumpsters and other likely places.

The French, of course, give the practice a wonderfully perverse twist-many gleaners do so by choice, disdainful of wastefulness and rampant consumerism. Varda’s photographic eye is much in evidence, and her narration is both shrewd and whimsical.  ~ Amazon.com

*Direct link to product on Amazon.com