Fruit Share volunteers are fantastic!  A big THANK YOU to all of our hard working volunteer fruit pickers.  They have done a remarkable job of picking apples all throughout the city.  While many Manitobans were lounging on the beach this hot, sunny weekend, our volunteers climbed ladders, raked compostables, picked and schlepped over 500 pounds of apples.  Very impressive!

And still, the requests for Fruit Share volunteers to pick fruit are coming in fast and furious.  In fact, the amount of fruit available for picking is beginning to exceed our volunteer pickers’ capacity.  As we suspected, even with over 160 volunteers, we can’t accommodate all the requests for fruit picking that we’re getting.

What’s a fruit owner to do?

Just because Fruit Share may not be able to help, all is not lost.  We’re encouraging homeowners to be creative and consider other ways to harvest their own fruit.  To help them in that regard, we developed this resource offering creative harvesting options for fruit owners.

  Harvesting Options: Ideas for Harvesting Backyard Fruit

We’re glad to help when we can, but if we can’t,  please consider other options for putting all that amazing prairie fruit to good use.