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  • From: "Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit to give away
  • Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:07:03 -0500

Today we had over 40 gleaners at Royal Oak Farm Orchard from the organization Gleaners for the Lord (http://www.gleanersforthelord.org/). So far this year (2006), as their web site indicates, they have distributed free of charge to the needy in Northern Il. over 1.3 Million pounds of food. Last year they gleaned hundreds of bushels of apples from our orchard. They assist us with the cultural practice of removing our drops from the orchard floor while at the same time are able to feed the less fortunate in northern Illinois.

Next Sunday there will be over 100 gleaners as the regional chapters of Gleaning for the Lord come to the orchard once again to glean our drops from the heavy U-Pick drops we experience each week.

There are many other regional organizations that practice the concept of gleaning all over the United States. If there are those of you who simply do not have time, as we do, that need or want your drops of left over fruit picked, try one of these gleaning organizations. You can find them by doing a Google search for "gleaners".


Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Spidra Webster" <spidra@speakeasy.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit to give away



On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

I didn't
have time to pick them, so I made up a sign saying "FREE, pick your own
raspberries." The director told me that the sign probably wouldn't do any
good. His clients desperately want raspberries but only if I pick and bring
them. Just in case, we hung the sign anyway and we hung it where it could
not be missed. The director was right. Nobody came. The berries ripened
and fell on the ground with no one to pick them.


Wow.

In the Bay Area here, there's an organization that has volunteers that pick fruit for delivery to the poor, disabled, etc.

http://villageharvest.org/

Unless the fruit doesn't taste good, seeing fruit rotting on the ground is a sad sad sight.


Spidra Webster
http://www.myspace.com/meganlynch
http://www.spidra.com








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