Virginia farmers bring back crop gleaning

High food prices and other factors lead consumers to visit food banks more often. To help, Virginia farmers share their crops in any way they can get through crop gleaning, an age-old practice.

The Virginia Farm Bureau tells us about crop gleaning.

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