It is that time of year again, more apples than most people can figure out what to do with! To handle the great amounts we are seeing, we’re going to be organizing to have a whole ton of apples pressed into cider at Apple Junction. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be organizing several apple picking extravaganzas: gathering a group of 6 or 7 volunteers, and spending a morning, afternoon or evening together picking apples at a few sites. Volunteers will be welcome to take home a small bag of apples, but the majority will be dedicated to Fruit Share. We then have a few volunteers that have signed up to transport our apples out to apple junction, where they will collect until we have enough to make a great batch of fresh apple cider. The cider will be sold at events as a fundraiser for fruit share. Volunteers who participate in the picks will be able to purchase cider at a reduced price (to be determined as it will be based on how much we can pick and press).
We have 3 apple extravaganza picks happening this week, click on the link to sign up:
Thursday, August 16, 6-8 pm, in the north east quarter of the city
Friday, August 17, 1-4 pm, in the south east quarter
Sunday, August 19, 12-4 pm, in the south west quarter
Please indicate on the doodle if you’d be interested in being a ‘team leader’ for the extravaganza you sign up for. This would mean being the main liaison with me back at the office, directing the group from location to location, and organizing the pickup with our volunteer driver.
Short notice for Thursday and Friday, so we’ll work with what we have. Don’t worry if you can’t make it this week – we’ll be offering more opportunities next week as well. We’d like this to be an opportunity to build our Fruit Share community by getting together and working on something bigger. Volunteers who sign up will be provided with more information.
***MUST BE A REGISTERED FRUIT SHARE VOLUNTEER TO SIGN UP***