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Recent Fruit Share harvests

Right now we’re in a bit of a lull before apple season really begins in August, but we’ve still been having a few great harvests.

In the past couple weeks, our harvests included:

- 14 lbs rhubarb between two locations in River Heights.

- 10 lbs rhubarb at one location in the North End.

- 5 lbs bok choy at one location in the North End.

- Two 4-litre buckets red currants at one location in Crestview.

After a 10-lbs rhubarb harvest.

Everything was composted on-site and the Union Gospel Mission, Lions Personal Care Centre, Siloam Mission, North End Food Security Network and welfare clients all benefited from our harvests. Thank you to all of our volunteers for their hard work!

Fresh red currants

Last week we had a great harvest of two 4-litre buckets of red currants.

By the end of the harvest, all buckets were full of lovely red currants.

It took our dedicated volunteers nearly two hours to pick all of the currants! One of the volunteers, a social worker, brought one third of the fruit back for her clients. Thank you to our volunteers and to the homeowner for their hard work and contributions.

The empty bush after all the currants were picked.