“My pears are dropping!”
Sep 3rd, 2008 by Laura Reinsborough
The emails and phone calls keep coming, with Toronto fruit tree owners happy to find a use for their overly-abundant backyard pears.
We picked a total of six trees (apples, pears, elderberries, and crabapples) over the Labour Day weekend. Our volunteers were happy to offer their labour for this community initiative and were rewarded with a plethora of fruit. They have yet to unionize.
One unassuming tree was only 10 feet tall but offered us over 160 pounds of fruit (with many remaining on the tree). This has pushed our residential fruit tree total to over 1600 pounds! Another tree had a bonus crop of grapes entwined in its branches, which the folks at NaMeRes and Wychwood Open Door eagerly accepted.
