Posted in Foraged, In Backyards, In the Kitchen, Resources on Nov 30th, 2011
[Thanks so much to Supreme Gleaner Rebecca Dehmassi for sharing this story. If you have a story to share about your fruit picking adventures, by all means send it along to info@notfarfromthetree.org.] We all know about the delicious fruits that Not Far From the Tree volunteers have been harvesting from our urban forest, but did [...]
Posted in In Backyards, Resources on Sep 28th, 2011
There have been rumours and whispers; questions and guesses. Everybody wants to know: where have all the pears gone? In the dead of night, in the heat of the summer, the Pear Gremlin sneaks into yards across Toronto, greedily and indiscriminately stealing pears for his insatiable appetite. While scaling the tree’s limbs, the Pear Gremlin’s [...]
Posted in In Backyards on Aug 5th, 2011
Since the first week of July, 132 Not Far From The Tree volunteers have harvested fruit from 32 trees – and we haven’t even hit our busiest part of the season yet! You may recall from a previous blog post that a wetter-than-normal spring affected this year’s cherry crop. Across Ontario, cherry farmers have experienced [...]
Posted in Events, In Backyards, Syrup in the City on Feb 4th, 2011
The end of winter is near and Not Far From The Tree is ready for the iconic food of the season: maple syrup! Not Far From The Tree is pleased to announce the launch of our urban maple syrup program, Syrup in the City, after a successful pilot program last year. This year, with the [...]
Posted in Events on May 17th, 2010
Early bird online tickets are over — but still lots of tickets at the door! Come on out TONIGHT (Thursday May 20th); or join us for the party afterwards! The blossoms are out (or even finished), wee little fruiting buds are appearing on trees, and folks are anxious to get out and pick some fruit. [...]
Not Far From The Tree is delighted to announce that we’ve been selected as one of thirty-three community groups across Ontario as recipients of the Community Go Green Fund! Awarded through the Ministry of the Environment, this provincial funding will help us expand our residential fruit-picking program this year, as we continue with our important [...]
Posted in Events, In Backyards, In the Kitchen, We'd Tap That! on Mar 24th, 2010
The culmination of our pilot program, We’d Tap That!, was an amazing day of fun, music, sap, and syrup! Held at Dufferin Grove Park Sunday March 14th, hundreds of folks came out for a taste of Toronto’s own Norway Maple syrup. Participants were invited to taste the original sap, and compare it to the final [...]
Posted in Events, In Backyards on Sep 25th, 2009
No, silly, we didn’t pick pears to feed a moose. But we picked as many pears as an adult female moose weighs. HOLY (moose) COW! Yesterday afternoon, eight hardy volunteers helped Not Far From the Tree pick a record of 557 pounds. AND there was still a good deal left on the tree (….not for [...]
Posted in Community Orchards, Events on Sep 16th, 2009
We’ve been so busy picking that we’ve had nary a spare second to write about the fabulous Edible Tree Tour that took place almost a month ago! In partnership with LEAF and their very own Toronto Tree Tours, a second annual Edible Tree Tour was held August 15th. By far the most popular of the [...]
