Embrace Abundance: Register for our Fruit Rescue Program
With subtropical conditions and sandy loams, fruit trees abound in Florida. Whether you’re a novice who inherited established fruit trees on your property or a pro who has expertly cultivated your own permaculture forest, there’s a good chance you can’t manage the whole harvest — collection or consumption.
Fortunately, Transition has the answer to your fruity woes: Fruit Rescue. As an expansion of our Suncoast Gleaning Project, the Fruit Rescue Program helps collect excess and unharvested fruit from our community’s trees and donate it to food banks and other mutual aid networks for redistribution.
The process is simple. Register your fruit tree(s) in our registry selecting a preferred harvest method, tree type, and other information. Depending on your preference, either collect your fruit yourself and drop it off at a Transition donation bin, or have volunteers collect it for you. Then relax with your portion of the harvest and the knowledge that you did a good deed.
If you’re left unconvinced of the ease, think through the benefits:
Food waste is reduced without you scrambling to find inventive (and sometimes questionable) ways to scarf down your harvest.
Save yourself the hassle. Volunteers will pick your tree clean AND you get first dibs on the portion you’d like to keep. Win-win!
Cha-ching! You’re eligible to receive a tax-deductible donation receipt for your contribution.
Rot, decay, mold, pests. Say you’re not one to really utilize your harvest, well you’re stuck with the cleanup — and often the unwanted critters you’ve managed to attract.
Your fruit gets to fulfill its lifelong dream of being consumed!
Your heart will bloom with the warm feeling of helping others. While it may seem a distant problem, hunger is an American epidemic with roots in the Manasota area. Ensuring access to nutritious foods helps support our community and interrupts the inextricable poverty/hunger cycle.
Let us take the burden off your hands and make you feel good in the process. Register here to celebrate your fruit bounty and embrace abundance by sharing locally grown, nutritious foods with those in need.
