Do you have fruit trees in your yard that need picking and you have more than you need? Before that delicious fruit drops to the ground, call Nanaimo Community Gardens at 250-816-4769 and they have gleaners on standby waiting for the call! Gleaners will come with ladders and buckets and collect your apples and cherries and even your vegetables, all for free. You keep a third, some of the food collected goes to Nanaimo Foodshare to provide nutritional fresh food to those in need and the remainder goes to the pickers, in appreciation of their hard work.
If some of your fruit is overly ripe, this is good also as Nanaimo Community Gardens has a large juicer and can make juice or sauce or jams. See the blogroll for a link to their website.
