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Gleaning Stories, Gleaning Change

Portraits of Gleaners: Claire Juster

Claire Juster

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The Family Dairy

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Claire Juster, 74, works in a food pantry at Madonna del Saso Catholic Church, where they distribute a lot of gleaned produce. She grew up as the youngest child of dairy farmers on the Central Coast.

Composting Then & Now

She composts, much as her mother did.

The Labor Bus

Claire worked briefly in the fields in the 1970s when her husband, a worker for Firestone, was on strike.

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