@article{Hilchey_2018, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={IN THIS ISSUE: Gleanings from the Field}, volume={8}, url={https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/591}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2018.082.017}, abstractNote={<p><em>First paragraph:</em></p> <p>Food waste and food rescue have been hot topics in recent years (although gleaning dates back to at least biblical times in the ancient traditions of <em>tzedakah</em> and <em>pe’ah</em>). Our cover photo for this issue, courtesy of Salvation Farms, shows a group of volunteers joining Salvation Farms and two other Vermont Gleaning Collective organizations gleaning a crop of carrots too large and misshapen for market. I first learned of the great work Salvation Farms is doing a couple of years ago from the Food Feed blog (<a href="https://learn.uvm.edu/%0bfoodsystemsblog/">https://learn.uvm.edu/foodsystemsblog/</a>) of the University of Vermont (a founding partner of JAFSCD). Salvation Farms had just published a report assessing on-farm food loss in Vermont, and I thought its methodology should be peer-reviewed and in the applied research literature. I contacted report authors Elana Dean and Salvation Farms director Theresa Snow and suggested they find a scholar who could work with them on a manuscript. They found Roni Neff, a food-waste expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (coincidentally also a founding partner of JAFSCD). Their collaboration has yielded a seminal work on estimating on-farm food loss. I share this story as a model of food system researchers and professionals collaborating to produce applied research that benefits all parties concerned—and the greater community. We are likely to do a special issue on food waste in the near future, and we hope to see more researcher-professional collaborations like this one....</p>}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={Hilchey, Duncan}, year={2018}, month={Jul.}, pages={1–3} }