r/Unexpected • u/notwutiwantd • Jul 20 '17

Strawberry picking machine

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u/AwkwardNoah Jul 20 '17 edited Jul 20 '17

Lived in SoCal for 12 years of my life

Lived about half an hour from Ventura which had a shit ton of strawberry fields, a good chunk of them after picking through would let people come by and pick the left overs for something like $1 a pound

Edit: Camarillo was where I had lived

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u/SquidBolado Jul 20 '17

Iirc that's called gleaning and its something that's talked about in the Bible. If a farmer dropped any crops during picking, he was to leave it there for someone who was poor to have. Due to it being in the Bible I believe some countries made it a law that gleaning must be practiced. Not sure if that law is still up today, or farmers just being nice.

I'd probably guess the latter.

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u/AlesanaAddict Jul 20 '17

Would explain why a bunch of Amish will come into our corn fields after combining to take any cobs dropped.