The Hamilton Community Harvest group have been invited to rescue as much fruit as they can on the weekend of June 4/5 from an apple and persimmon orchard in Newstead and Matangi.

Backstory:

WasteMINZ were contacted by the owners of a persimmon orchard owned by an older couple who apparently are not well and were planning to let approximately 25tonnes of fruit rot.  They saw the recent pumpkin rescue on Love Food Hate Waste coordinated in Auckland. The apples are from an export orchard but the apples apparently aren’t pink enough!

There are three ways to participate:

1. Volunteering/or know of people who might be interested in volunteering on one or both days to pick the fruit (registrations close 1 June 2016).
2. Volunteering the use of a trailer or truck for collecting the fruit and dropping it off at a designated drop-off point
3. Know of a community group, school, charity, marae, or other place that might benefit from receiving the fruit. They will have 25 tonnes of fruit to distribute!!

If you are interested in supporting, or can put good fruit to use, please email/call Colleen the coordinator to find out more details.

Colleen – Hamilton Community Harvest coordinator
0212531526
pickfruithamilton@gmail.com