WINDSOR — Gleaning is the practice of collecting leftover crops from fields after the harvest. The Bible urges gleanings be left for the needy and the stranger.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 311 Sixth St., maintains a Community Gleaning Garden as one of three outreach programs to provide free food assistance for neighbors and strangers.

The 12 raised garden beds border a sidewalk behind the church, allowing easy access for people who park their vehicles at the curb and for passersby.

“There’s a gentleman with a walker who comes by twice a day and takes a little something to take home,” said Kari Seay, a church member who volunteers her time to supervise the gardens. “We had a gal who stops by and gets a little bit of basil each day on the way home.”

Planting the beds began in late Marc

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