I think harvest could work. To me it seems to have some connotations to organised agriculture, as in harvesting a field of crops specifically planted for such a purpose as opposed to gathering what grew naturally?
Also five languages is impressive, what are the other four?
Harvest is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of fruit picking, and actually sounds more direct than 'gather' when we are talking about food stuff.
Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pangasinan. They're old languages from the time before the Spanish came and colonized my country, it's honestly hard remembering them all so I tend to just forget them altogether when I'm not talking to someone or a relative who speaks the language exclusively.
I think gathering, in this context, comes from the phrase “hunting and gathering.” This is used to describe groups that don’t use agriculture to procure food. So, a a group of people may be described as hunter-gatherers.
Hey I'm not a native English speaker either but from my understanding, gathering or foraging refers to picking stuff from the wild whereas harvesting is more about getting stuff you've yourself grown/produced, like from a field or a greenhouse. Hunter-gatherer societies existed before the agricultural revolution, hence the difference. That said harvesting is nowadays used as a rather general word so it could probably be used as well.
If you don't mind me asking, how similar are the four languages you mentioned? I know very little of Tagalog and pretty much nothing about the others so I'm curious, because I didn't know there were such linguistic differences in the Philippines.
Fun fact: plants can communicate with each other, they aren’t just objects in the background. One of the characteristics of life is response to stimulus and plants have that. An example is bag worms, the pre-metamorphosis stage of the gypsy moth. They utterly destroy the foliage of trees by expanding bags of silk around areas they eat. Trees react to that stimulus intelligently. They stop putting energy into reproduction to conserve energy that cycle. The next cycle they don’t start putting energy into reproduction either and instead create a chemical for their leaves that is deadly to the bag worms. They also release a pheromone that was described my by biology professor as “screaming you can’t hear” that alerts all other trees of basically any species downwind of the tree that bag worms have invaded, so miles in any direction of the affect area you have trees doing the same thing even tho they haven’t had any other indication of bag worms than the “scream”
Other kinds of plants recognize their family when expanding their roots and only competitively expand their roots against other species or a different lineage of the same plant species, meaning effectively that they share resources with their direct family members.
Also five languages is impressive, what are the other four?
Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pangasinan. They're old languages from the time before the Spanish came and colonized my country, it's honestly hard remembering them all so I tend to just forget them altogether when I'm not talking to someone or a relative who speaks the language exclusively.
If you don't mind me asking, how similar are the four languages you mentioned? I know very little of Tagalog and pretty much nothing about the others so I'm curious, because I didn't know there were such linguistic differences in the Philippines.