Sheilah O’Connor – Not Far From the Tree

August 3, 2021

Sheilah O’Connor

I love the whole idea of reclaiming lost fruit, and getting to take some home!

Further Reading

Not Far From The Tree is hiring for the Summer!

NFFTT is Growing!

All Are Welcome Here! Fresh Fruit, Dignity, and Respect with Unity Kitchen

Meet Our New Program Manager, Rachel!

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Thank you for sharing all of your pick pictures an

Thank you for sharing all of your pick pictures and videos! This beautiful shot is from a sweet cherry pick this weekend, that totalled 63 pounds! You read that right 😍

With cherries currently costing approximately $7 a pound at the average grocery store, these cherries would have costed a total of $441 plus tax.

But, they didn't.

This is made possible through a dedicated team of fruit pickers and a generous tree registrant who kindly shared their fruit.

This fruit was equally split three ways: one third to tree registrants, one third to volunteers, and one third to service agencies.

In a time where food security is becoming an even bigger issue, your donations play a vital role. Donations to our project will help bring in Toronto’s harvest this year and reduce food waste.

Thank you to everyone who came to our pruning work

Thank you to everyone who came to our pruning workshops! We hope that you learned some new skills, to continue to take care of our urban orchard!
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If you would like to learn more about pruning, be sure to check out Susan Poizner's new quick-read book, Grow Fruit Trees Fast!
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Special thanks to our event sponsor, GARDENA!

We interviewed Molly, one of our Program Coordinat

We interviewed Molly, one of our Program Coordinators, about her passion for NFFTT!
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What do you want your Toronto to be? For us it’s friendly, fruitful, neighbourly, and full of blooming trees. Help us grow Toronto’s urban orchard–and the best version of TO–with a donation to our pre-season fundraiser.
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NFFTT isn’t just picking Toronto’s fruit–we’re a lab for urban orchard learning. We’ve picked and shared 231,037 pounds of fruit…and counting.
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Help us get to an even 260,000 this summer with a pre-season donation!
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Donating to our pre-season fundraiser also helps our U of T Forestry interns map the health of Toronto’s bountiful fruit trees.

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