Fruit picking program

 Read this newspaper article this morning. I think this may be a program we could use in Tahsis. If you or your neighbour has a tree you’d like picked, email me at Olson.stephanie2009@gmail and I will try to find pickers.

“It has been a fruitful season for the Lifecycles Project Society’s Fruit Tree Project, which is having one of its busiest bursts in a long time.

As of Wednesday, through its volunteer growers and pickers, the Victoria-based charitable organization whose mission is to build a resilient food system by growing, harvesting, and sharing food, had already harvested more than 20K pounds of fresh fruit—almost twice the amount collected at this time last year.

The landowners and volunteers each get to keep one-quarter of the fruit, while the remaining half is redistributed. A roster of some 200 volunteers picks fruit from June to November, starting with cherries, then plums, figs, pears, grapes, and apples.“

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