Roadside "harvesting"

[Wagtail]

Interesting article regarding roadside harvesting... thieves taking a farmer's crop, whether it's from the field or the 'honesty' booth.

Roadside ‘harvesting’ is still stealing — Homestead — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

 

[nybirdman]

I have seen that happen in Northern NY;usually "city" people /vacationers who don't know the difference from cow corn or sweet corn.

 

[k0ua]

Stealing produce in some parts can get you a load of shot in the azz.

 

[dmccarty]

I know of one farm that has had an honesty box stolen. There is another road side stand which I THINK he has an honesty box and leaves food out at night. They are right off a major rural highway and I often wonder if they have been robbed.

My wife's family always allowed people to get sweet potatoes AFTER the field had been harvested. Twas amazing how much food was left in the field after the harvest.

I am reading a blog about a couple walking along a pilgrim trail in Spain. They mention taking grapes and almonds from fields as they walk past. :shocked: Not sure if this is expected/allowed but if every hiker did this, I could see the landowner taking some losses given how many walkers are on that trail. Might be just tradition to do the picking while walking too. :confused3:

Later,
Dan

 

[Deere Dude]

I had a neighbor in the country with two nice apple trees right in front of the house and 20-30 feet off the road. Went to check on them one day and every apple on the road half was gone. Probably a bushel or two. How far is allowed? I think it is all stealing.

 

[dmccarty]

I had a neighbor in the country with two nice apple trees right in front of the house and 20-30 feet off the road. Went to check on them one day and every apple on the road half was gone. Probably a bushel or two. How far is allowed? I think it is all stealing.

That reminded me of when my parents had citrus trees. They had a regular house on a small lot in a subdivision with a some different citrus trees. One of the neighbors would come down and just take the fruit! :confused3::shocked: They would have 4-6 people out there just taking the fruit and of course they did not ask.

Later,
Dan

 

[oosik]

There are several locations thru out Ea WA where fruit trees are right in the county roadside ditch or very close. I have checked on three of these locations and the trees are actually in the road ROW. I've contacted the adjacent property owner on two of these and they could care less if I harvest the apples. Both have cautioned - "Please DO NOT drive any vehicle out into the adjoining wheat field".

All of these trees are VERY old and have not been maintained for eons - yet, they still produce large crops of apples. I really don't think that Johnny Applesead ever made it up this way. So I'm thinking these are plantings from some original homestead in the area that is long gone. I find these old homestead apple to be very tasty and if you core out any burrowing/tunneling bugs, they make delicious apple pies OR leave the bugs in for added spice.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

A few "Pesticide Use in this Area" signs might be a good deterrent.

 

[TheMan419]

Yeah we have feed corn growing across the street. Haven't seen anyone picking it, but the other neighbors road their horses through AFTER it was planted in the spring. Farmer was none too happy. Thankfully we have had him do some work for us so he knew it was not us.

 

[bigtiller]

I go roadside harvesting at least once a month, but all I get is empty beer cans.

 

[dragoneggs]

Do wild blackberries count?

 

[TCJatko]

I thought I was going to learn about retrieving roadkill.

 

[dmccarty]

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All of these trees are VERY old and have not been maintained for eons - yet, they still produce large crops of apples. I really don't think that Johnny Applesead ever made it up this way. So I'm thinking these are plantings from some original homestead in the area that is long gone. I find these old homestead apple to be very tasty and if you core out any burrowing/tunneling bugs, they make delicious apple pies OR leave the bugs in for added spice.

Do you know the variety of the apple? Many of the old apple varieties have disappeared because they did not get picked for "modern" cultivation. Not that they were bad apples but they just did not get picked and the variety dies out.

Apple seeds will produce a different tree/apple than from the parent tree. Every Red Delicious has been cloned from the first and only Red Delicious tree.

Those trees you are seeing could be an important missing "heritage" apple.

Later,
Dan

 

[Wagtail]

I am reading a blog about a couple walking along a pilgrim trail in Spain. They mention taking grapes and almonds from fields as they walk past. :shocked: Not sure if this is expected/allowed but if every hiker did this, I could see the landowner taking some losses given how many walkers are on that trail. Might be just tradition to do the picking while walking too. :confused3:

Later,
Dan

Seeing as it's an established 'pilgrim' trail, the taking and/or gleaning is due to Leviticus 23:22, with a bit of Deuteronomy 24:19 thrown in for good measure.

 

[Goose69]

Seeing as it's an established 'pilgrim' trail, the taking and/or gleaning is due to Leviticus 23:22, with a bit of Deuteronomy 24:19 thrown in for good measure.

LOL.
..I am assuming you posted that with a sense of humor...(;
.... I'm not certain that all of the laws written for a specific group of people, at a certain point in time, are exactly applicable to a totally different culture, people, and time.

 

[BHD]

now I have harvest grass seed from the county road ditches in the past, I made a grass seed stripper and would just go down the road edge with the tractor and the harvester, and strip off the seeds, and came home and planted it in my road side ditches, (the machine does not cut the grass, it just take the seed off the stems and deposits them in a box behind the header of the machine), the county just come in in and mows it i try to get a few days before they mow it down, as that is usually when the seed is mature, the machine is not 100% so there is plenty left for reseeding the ditches where I harvest, now I have enough good grass in the ditches if need to be I can harvest my own,

 

[BHD]

years ago we had a cherry tree on one of the pieces of farm ground (form an old farmstead) and it was a race to see who could pick it, this was a few hundred yards from the road, but whom ever was picking it never asked and was a major disappointment for my mother when it was picked before we got to it, as it was on her land,

 

[dmccarty]

Seeing as it's an established 'pilgrim' trail, the taking and/or gleaning is due to Leviticus 23:22, with a bit of Deuteronomy 24:19 thrown in for good measure.

Thank you for the word "gleaning" because I was racking my head trying to remember that word. The wife's family specifically allowed the gleaning of their fields after harvest. They used the word too.

They pilgrim trail might allow gleaning but over 200,000 people walk at least some portion of the trail which might clear out a field quick. I did search to see if gleaning is allowed on the trail but I did not find anything. :confused3:

Later,
Dan

 

[Thomas]

Happens around our area,they been know to take bale hay also from wood piles plus from stonewalls.