Welcome Fruit Owners!

Thank you for sharing your fruit with Fruit Share.  We promise to make good use of your fruit and to respect your property at picking time.  Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect as a fruit owner.

Fruit Registration
Click here to complete our Fruit Registration Form to register your fruit and provide valuable information for us.  Once we receive your form, we’ll contact you and fill you in on the next steps.

What is Fruit Share?
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!

Our Goals
While minimizing food waste is a major goal of the project, Fruit Share is also about fostering a sense of community and being conscientious about sustainable, local food systems.  In short our goals are to:

• minimize food waste
• foster a strong sense of community
• promote local food production
• share resources
• share knowledge of food preservation and preparation
• share knowledge of fruit tree maintenance

Your Role as a Fruit Owner
Your job is easy, simply let us know what fruit you have and when, approximately, it might be ready to harvest.  Then, as long as we have volunteers available, we’ll do the rest!  You don’t even have to be at home if you don’t want to be.

To start the process, complete the Fruit Registration Form and contact us about two weeks before the fruit is ready to be harvested.

Please keep in mind that although we will do our best to find volunteers to harvest your fruit, we cannot guarantee that volunteers will be able to come out. We have fruit trees ready for harvest all over the city, and our organization depends on the ability of our volunteers to have the time and necessary equipment in order to come to pick your tree.

Benefits of Registering with Fruit Share
There are so many benefits of sharing your fruit with Fruit Share!  For example you’ll get…

• fresh fruit with no effort at all
• a cleanly picked fruit tree
• a sense of relief at not wasting food
• a sense of contributing to the community
• a tidy yard
• new friends
• new recipes

Let us do all the picking for you and get 1/3 of the harvest.  Or, call us after you’ve picked whatever you want and we’ll take the remaining fruit.