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Randall Waugh didn’t even know a Gleaners Group existed, but he knew that he didn’t like the idea of order-
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Doug Benoliel, co-organizer of the Gleaning Group on Lopez, holds a basket of gleaned fruit.
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One of the key ingredients in Waugh’s Lopez-made Chicaoji Chili Sauce is apple cider vinegar. So when he heard several Lopezians were collecting fruit from unpicked trees,
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he joined the team of volunteers calling themselves the Gleaning Group. Waugh said, there are orchards on Lopez no longer maintained, overgrown with grass and forgotten, but still producing fruit — just waiting to be picked. The Society of St. Andrews, an organization operating mainly in southern states, maintains that gleaning originated in a passage in Deuteronomy: “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings.� But there are lots of gleaning operations going on with no religious affiliations — just the desire to make use of what is being wasted. Food waste is responsible for 135 million tons of greenhouse gases every year, or about 1.5 percent of all emissions, says CleanMetrics, which builds software that does life cycle analysis for companies and organizations who want to measure and reduce their environmental impact. For the Gleaners, collecting fruit that falls off the tree is just one way to offset food waste, and is an alternative way of thinking about the way humans consume or waste food. Doug Benoliel, co-organizer of the Gleaning Group on Lopez, said this practice is SEE GLEANING, PAGE 8