Share your fruit
Sep 21st, 2008 by admin
Do you have a fruit tree to share? We can help! When we know your fruit is ready to pick, we’ll send a team of volunteer gleaners to harvest your fruit and divide it up to share with community agencies.
The benefits for you include:
We harvest as much of the fruit as we can (within safety limits);
We leave the ground beneath clean;
You can keep up to 1/3 of the fruit, if you wish;
You help minimize food waste in our community and supply fresh fruit to those in need.
Simply fill out the registration form below and send it to info@notfarfromthetree.org. Or send us an email to have the form sent to you.
Fruit Tree Registration Form (PDF)
Fruit Tree Registration Form (Word)
We’ve already picked sour cherries, sweet cherries, serviceberries, apricots, peaches, plums, pears, apples, crabapples, and elderberries. If you have another fruit to suggest, please do! Eventually we hope to also harvest edible nuts.
Note: While we try to pick as many trees as possible, we may not be able to pick every tree that registers with us depending on location and our capacity. For 2008, for example, we’ve limited our scope to Ward 21 in order to ensure that our efforts are manageable. However, we’ve already started picking outside of that area because we have had such a great response from volunteers. If you register your tree, we’ll do the best we can to pick it. And in 2009 we have plans to expand into a few more neighbourhoods across the city!
There is a nectarine tree beside our parking area that’s filled with ripening nectarines. This is a condo at the entrance to the distillery and none of the residents seems interested in harvesting this fruit, or at least large portions of it. I offer it to you.
I live in Thornhill (off Bathurst, just south of Hwy 7), and have a pear tree with a huge number of ripe pears that I can’t possibly pick, let alone eat. Would you be willing to come up here?
Hi! I’m so glad you’re here. Every year it’s a struggle to figure out what to do with the grapes in our backyard arbour - they make delicious juice but it’s a lot of work, and a lot more juice than we need. So - are you thinking of adding grapes to the list of fruits you’ll help harvest?
HI , I have an 2 apple trees in my back yard. +++ apples; good use in eating alone; and baking, but there are so many. I would like to share the apples as well as enjoy them myself.
I live at dovercourt and college. please feel free to contact if interested.
thanks
Pears ready for the picking in Mississauga. Could someone come before they rot? Pls e-mail me asap. Thanks