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Speaker 1: Usha Trakrar and her team are in a constant race.

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Speaker 2: It's called field gleaning, and we'd rescue probably about six

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Speaker 2: or seven hundred thousand pounds of fruits and vegetables each season.

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Speaker 1: Getting teams of volunteers out to local farmers to pick

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Speaker 1: the fruits and vegetables they don't want before they go

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Speaker 1: bad or need to be chucked. They are the Boston

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Speaker 1: area gleaners today. The fruit coming back to h Q

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Speaker 1: and ACT and as palettes upon pallets of apples.

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Speaker 3: We have bins of apples that have been put on

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Speaker 3: this machine that now dumps it, kind of lifts it

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Speaker 3: off the ground, dumps it onto a conveyor belt.

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Speaker 1: Demand has been huge this past year, and especially since

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Speaker 1: snap benefits were put on hold, but Usha says people

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Speaker 1: have also been hungry to volunteer. Alyssa, who is showing

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Speaker 1: me around, says, it's staggering to see what could have

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Speaker 1: gone to waste.

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Speaker 3: It is mind blowing to see the amount of food

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Speaker 3: that comes through that would otherwise have been sent to

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Speaker 3: a landfill.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffle Debby Busy, Boston's News radio