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Biggest Harvest to Date recorded by Free Press

Filed Under : Fruit Owners by admin
Jun.28,2010

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.
Brought to you by the good folks at Fruit Share Winnipeg.

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Our First Fruit Sharing

Filed Under : Manitoba Fruit by admin
May.25,2010

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 harvest!
True to form, Fruit Share split the fruit three ways.  The  homeowner asked for her 1/3 to be left standing in the rhubarb patch.  The remainder was split 50/50 between the volunteer and an unknown senior living at Fred Tipping Place (a senior’s apartment building on South Osborne).  
Yes, it was a small bundle that we shared.  But it was just the right size to get a huge grin and a big thank you from a lovely gentleman who enjoys making rhubarb crisp.  That little batch was all he needed.
Thanks to Julie for sharing her bounty and making three families very happy on a cloudy May long weekend.  
Brought to you by the good folks at Fruit Share Winnipeg.

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Welcome to Fruit Share

Filed Under : Fruit Owners,Volunteers by admin
May.11,2010

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

Brought to you by the good folks at Fruit Share Winnipeg.

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