Society of St. Andrew

Schedule of Gleanings in this Area
(subject to change)

04-27:   I will be gleaning on Sunday with a church group from Middleburg. We'd love to have you join us. I'm meeting them at 9:30 a.m. at the Kangaroo in Hastings. We should be harvesting red potatoes in Hastings and I plan to go back by the onion field in Armstrong as well. We were there on Tuesday and of course there are HUNDREDS of onions still left out in the field. If there is no significant rain between now and Sunday they should still be good enough to glean. Cole has invited me to take a table at the MayDay event in St. Augustine on Saturday afternoon, May 2. I hope you'll come by and visit with me their

For onions, they have been mostly on top of the dirt in past gleanings but we would need scissors to cut off the long dried tops. For potatoes, there is a tool called a potato rake that is three-pronged instrument with a long handle so you can stand and rake it through the dirt. I have used a similar hand tool in the past and knelt to harvest the potatoes. I have found a traditional metal rake's tines to be too short to harvest potatoes, and a shovel is pretty ineffective. If you have any of these kinds of tools and could bring them to the gleaning that would be most helpful.

The important things to bring: