Harvest time!
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Harvesting has begun, and we have already started distributing boxes of fruit to local schools! If you want to become a volunteer, or add neglected trees to the list, please get in contact. Email harvest@cch.org.au or phone 5472 4842 or read more about the Harvest Group.
If you’ve got fruit trees that are sighing under the weight of an abundant crop that you and all your neighbours can’t possibly eat all of, let us know about it and we will send our wonderful team of volunteers to harvest your excess.
Here’s how it generally works:
- Let us know: by email: harvest@cch.org.au or phone: 5472 4842 when your fruit is ready to pick. You can tell your fruit is ready because it’s falling off the tree, it tastes sweet, it is soft-ish and comes off the tree easily. Also let us know what days and times we can come to harvest.
- Call out: we then send out an email to our volunteer harvest network with the harvesting date, time and place.
- Harvest: you get a third of the fruit, volunteer harvesters get a third and the remaining fruit gets bottled or goes to local organisations such as childcare centres and primary schools.
- Prune: we will endeavour to come back in winter/spring to prune and feed your trees. This is dependent on volunteer numbers vs number of trees we harvest from. If we can’t make it back to your house, we can provide advice on how to prune.
- The perks: as a Growing Abundance volunteer (harvesting, donating fruit, helping with events etc) you get FREE access to all our wonderful workshops which include fruit tree pruning, compost making, natural pest control, preserving, cider making, olive oil pressing etc.