Riverview – Fruit Share

Biggest Harvest to Date recorded by Free Press

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:40:00 +0000

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…

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Our First Fruit Sharing

Tue, 25 May 2010 13:17:00 +0000

And so it begins. On a cloudy May long weekend, a desperate plea from a friend and neighbour about rhubarb launched Fruit Share into action. It was a small harvest of 1.5kg or 3lbs of rhubarb. It required only one volunteer travelling by bicycle to harvest, but it was and always will be our first…

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Fruit Share Opens

Tue, 11 May 2010 16:42:00 +0000

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 three…

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