Fruit Save Looking For Volunteers

Fruit Save Looking For Volunteers

Cowichan Green Fruit Tree Assessor Community’s FruitSave Person who assesses the fruit program is in need of a tree prior to it being picked in few extra helping hands. order to determine: Consider becoming a pick • How many volunteers are leader or fruit tree assessor. needed to pick the tree (how Either position is 5-10 hours much fruit is on the tree and a month for September and how easy it is to pick the October. fruit.) Pick Leader to pick the tree (size of ladder, Pick leaders ensure that all type of ladder, picking poles, the equipment needed for a etc.) pick makes it from the CGC’s • Are there any special office to the tree location and considerations such as sloping back again. The equipment ground, special plants under includes the ladders, picking the tree, etc… bags, picking poles and weigh scales. Once the fruit Note: efforts will be made to is harvested the pick leader match a person with a tree in reports back to CGC the their neighbourhood so a car total amount of fruit that was is not always needed. picked, how many pounds were donated and to what Volunteers have harvested organization the fruit went to. over two tonnes (4696 pounds Needs to be able to transport and pears in the first two at least the 6′ ladder and in months of this season and some cases the 11′ ladder • What equipment is needed to be exact!) of apples, plums

there are two months left to go. Please consider becoming a pick leader or fruit tree assessor so more people in the Cowichan Valley can have access to home grown fruit.

To sign up to volunteer, stop by CGC’s office or fill-out an

online volunteer application at cowichangreencommunity. org/volunteer/

For more information, check out our webpage or contact CGC’s FruitSave coordinators at: fruitsave@ cowichangreencommunity.org

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