Sunday's food giveaway at Miller farm cancelled
posted by: Dan Boniface

PLATTEVILLE (AP) - A second day of a field gleaning Sunday at a Platteville area farm has been cancelled because an unexpected crowd of 40,000 people picked the farm clean a day before.

Chris Miller says he expected between 5,000 to 10,000 people to show up to collect free potatoes, carrots and leeks Saturday. Instead, cars snaked around cornfields and backed up nearly three miles. About 30 acres of the 600 acre farm about 37 miles north of Denver became a parking lot.

Some people also left their cars along two nearby Colorado highways to take the field with sacks, wagons and barrels to harvest the produce.

Miller says he opened his field to the free harvest after hearing reports of food being stolen from local churches.


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