It was the third day of October, the heart of grape-picking season in the wine country of Northern California, and it was the third day of Sukkot, the Jewish holiday that since antiquity has celebrated the gathering of crops.
All that extra added light made it easier, once upon a time, for farmers to stay late gathering their crops or hunters to, well, hunt.
In the rhythm of the year, Mabon is a time of rest and celebration, after the hard work of gathering the crops.
Here we use 'ground-level browsing' only for the gathering and cropping of browse within one meter or less of the soil surface.
The extraordinary breadth of the muzzle of Nigersaurus and the squared muzzles in other diplodocoids would enhance gathering and cropping near a relatively flat surface.
Here we distinguish ground-level browsing as a specialized form of low browsing that involves the gathering and cropping of plants close to the ground.
Moreover, many scrapbook supply shops have workrooms where they hold gatherings, called "crops".
In a subsistence economy, work directly answers the needs of life: gathering food, growing crops, building shelters and fires.
TURMUS AYA, West Bank — Palestinians from villages like this one in the West Bank governorate of Ramallah still remember when the olive harvest was a joyous occasion, with whole families out for days in the fall sunshine, gathering the year's crop and picnicking under the trees.
Most farmers will charge a lower rate for cutting, gathering, and packaging your crops than for allowing you to do so on your own, due to fear that you may damage the machine.
