Overwhelming Response to Calgary Urban Harvest - We Need Volunteers!

Calgary Harvest was featured in a short segment on Global TV last weekend.  Since then, over 150 homeowners have registered their trees!  We now have 700 homes registered, and many of them have multiple trees.  The Calgary Urban Harvest Project is run entirely by volunteers.  We have 18 amazing coordinators who have taken on the job of coordinating the harvest in their areas of the city.  Our coordinators rely on volunteers who actually pick the fruit.  Currently, we do not have enough volunteers to keep up with the demand.  If you know someone who might be interested, please spread the word.  Why volunteer?  Because its fun!  You don't need any special equipment.  We are slowly aquiring harvesting equipment, and some of our homeowners are able to provide ladders.  You'll go home with lots of local, organic fruit, and you get to spend the day meeting and conversing with new people, both fellow harvesters and homeowners.  A typical harvest day goes something like this: you gather at the meeting point, where the coordinator will put you into groups and hand out a list of homes.  You drive to the first home, knock on the door and identify yourself if the homeowner is home.  Then you pick the tree.  Fruit trees come in all shapes and sizes, from tidy little 10' tall apple trees to massive 30' tall crabapples!  We pick what we can, and leave the rest.  We just purchased some cool pole mounted basket pickers, which allow us to reach more fruit from the ground.  Once you've picked as much of a tree as possible, you pack up the car and move on to the next house.  At the end of the day, everyone meets up at the meeting point again and splits up the fruit.  Sometimes phone numbers are exchanged as new friendships are formed.  Why not come out and join us?