Good things grow on trees

Do you have a fruit or nut tree and want to share the bounty with Vancouver’s emergency food system? Would you like to harvest neighborhood fruit to donate to local food pantries?

Each year in yards across Vancouver, thousands of pounds of fruit and nuts fall to the ground, going to waste and presenting a clean-up problem. At the same time, many in the community go hungry.

Urban Abundance’s gleaning program offers tools for the Vancouver community to register trees to be harvested. The group also organizes volunteers to help bring in a harvest of fresh, healthy, local food.

Join Urban Abundance for its first year of gleaning fruit and nuts in Vancouver!

To register your fruit tree or sign up as a gleaner, visit www.myurbanabundance.org/gleaning or call Warren at 360-771-1296.

Friends of Trees also offers fruit trees for yards, such as apple, Asian pear, persimmon, plum and fig. Sign up here with Friends of Trees if you are interested in planting one in your yard this season.

To make sure more good things grow on trees, Friends of Trees has launched a campaign to plant thousands of trees in the Portland-Vancouver area.

Remember: Good things grow on trees!

– Andy Meeks & Jesse Batty

Meeks is Volunteer & Outreach Specialist & Batty is Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator for Friends of Trees