For centuries, gleaning was a lifeline for the rural poor in England and France. Today, some nonprofits are working to bring it back. The three women in the painting stoop low in the field, their ...

Jean-François Millet’s The Gleaners, painted in 1857, immortalized this act of necessity: gleaning, the collection of leftover crops after the harvest. Rooted in agrarian traditions ...

Today, some nonprofits are working to bring it back. Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. For centuries, gleaning had been a lifeline for the rural poor in England and France—a legally ...