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Jun.8,2011Check out the article in the Winnipeg Metro today! Click here for link – Fruit Share in Metro June 8
Category : Fruit Owners
Jun.8,2011
50 Volunteers Ready to Pick
May.17,2011Today, our 50th volunteer fruit picker registered!
Volunteers from across the city are signing up and letting us know that they love Manitoba backyard fruit and are willing to roll up their sleeves to pick, enjoy and share some fruit.
We also have 39 fruit picking locations registered. Based on last year’s experience we can expect even more calls from fruit owners when the fruit is ripe and ready to be picked.
Just 20 more volunteers and another 20 fruit picking locations and we’ll be right on target for picking around 7,000 pounds of fruit this summer!
Got rhubarb?
Got neighbours with rhubarb?
If you or someone you know has more rhubarb than they know what to do with, let us know. We looovvvve rhubarb and will put it to good use.
Pass on the message and help us make the most of local, nutritious, and delicious fruit.
Email us at [email protected].
Today, we gathered 28 lbs of rhubarb from 5 different back yards. What a haul! The fruit owners, volunteers and Siloam Mission were equally thrilled.
To make a great day even more special, journalist Melissa Martin and photographer Ken Gigliotti stopped by to write an article on Fruit Share for the Winnipeg Free Press. See if you can be one of the first to spot a glimpse of some of our volunteers in action in the Free Press sometime this week.
Thanks to all the great Riverview volunteers and homeowners who made today possible.
Another Happy Fruit Owner and Volunteer Picker
Jun.26,2010
Fruit Share really works!
Earlier this week, Beth and Aleta, who live a mere four blocks away from each other but don’t know each other, read about Fruit Share in the Riverview Reflector. Each contacted Fruit Share – one to register as a fruit owner and one to register as a volunteer picker. Three days later, Beth welcomed us into her yard to harvest her rhubarb and Aleta went home with a bundle of freshly picked rhubarb. Both were happy.
Thank you to both Beth and Aleta for making Fruit Share work.
An announcement in the Reflector (our community newspaper) is resulting in a bit of interest in Fruit Share. We have new volunteers and more rhubarb registered. How exciting!
Also, the Free Press is looking at running a story sometime next week. Watch for it and tell your neighbours.
We’re also getting some other fruit registered. Apples, grapes, nanking cherries and even pears are on our list for the summer.
My mouth is watering!
Fruit Share is dedicated to picking, sharing and enjoying fresh fruit growing in backyards throughout Winnipeg, Manitoba. We connect fruit owners with volunteer fruit pickers to make good use of all that delicious, nutritious local fruit. Fruit owners make their fruit available for picking, volunteers pick the fruit and then the fruit is shared – 1/3 to the homeowner, 1/3 to the volunteers and 1/3 to community organizations that can use the fruit (eg. Winnipeg Harvest, Agape Table, etc.). Everyone benefits!
The idea is based on similar models in Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. The South Osborne Urban Community Cooperative is leading the start up of this project in two Winnipeg communities – Riverview and Lord Roberts.
Are you interested in participating? Do you have fruit that needs picking? Would you like to be a volunteer fruit picker? Are you part of a community organization that could make good use of local fruit? If so, let us know by sending an email to [email protected].
By: Getty Stewart
By: Getty Stewart
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