HARVESTING Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

harvesting

verb

present participle of harvest

as in picking

to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use harvest salmon from nearby rivers every year we harvest corn from our own garden

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Recent Examples of harvesting Landscape designer Ben Gordon of Metropolitan Garden and Design notes that harvesting the outer leaves first allows the inner leaves to continue growing, with many varieties ready to harvest by April or May. —

Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026 Cut-and-come-again is a gardening practice that involves harvesting only the outer, mature leaves of the plant, leaving young leaves or root systems alone. —

Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 May 2026 Robot Stories Around Solar Panels (2025), one of his paintings in that show, features machine people harvesting pearls from giant clamshells and posing as Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026 Not to mention, harvesting garlic bulbs can disturb the soil quite a bit and interfere with the growth of sage plant roots. —

Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 10 May 2026 Regularly harvesting chive plants from your garden will reduce yellow leaves and stimulate new growth, but don’t overdo it. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2026 The new limits on harvesting energy from the V6 to charge the battery on the move should reduce the potential for huge speed differentials like the one that caused Oliver Bearman’s crash in Japan, and energy management was (thankfully) not much of a topic this weekend. —

Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026 In addition to raising livestock, canning foods, harvesting her own fruits and vegetables, crocheting and more, the country music star takes pride in her farm-to-table way of living. —

Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026 One of Kukuiʻula’s unique amenities is the 10-acre upcountry organic farm, which provides produce and flowers for the resort community as well as opportunities for residents to connect with the land by harvesting crops, cutting tropical blooms, picnicking, or hiking and biking. —

Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026

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This is as important, and as boring, in theory, as picking a fund for your 401(k), yet, improbably, the draft has become one of the largest events on the sporting calendar.

— Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
So picking the right actors was very important for me.

— Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026