Calgary Harvest’s first full season was a huge success! About 50 volunteers picked fruit from over 100 registered fruit trees. The fruit was distributed to a wide variety of people: homeowners, volunteers, food bank and homeless shelter clients, and farmer’s market customers. Essentially, this project grew way faster than expected, and we quickly became swamped! While we did manage to get to just over 100 trees last season, there were almost 400 registered when the harvest season was over!
So, we put on our thinking caps and this year we looking to recruit local coordinators who are interested in managing a local version of Calgary Harvest in their community. This will allow us to communicate better with both homeowners and volunteers, and hopefully allow us to pick the now over 500 trees that are currently registered! We are very excited about these plans and we hope that it will enable us to develop new partnerships with community groups that have a use for local fruit.
To recruit coordinators, we will be holding a series of information sessions over the next couple of months. If you’re interested in finding out more, please e-mail info [at] calgaryharvest [dot] com or sign up for our upcoming info sessions below!