Got Fruit?

• If you have a lot of fruit or have physical difficulty with harvesting, offer your extra fruit and our volunteer teams may be able to harvest for you.
• If you're physically able, harvest it yourself and donate directly to local organizations.   See our Home Harvest FAQ's for tips, including ladder-less harvesting.  Check our Community Dropoff Locations for organizations in the SF Bay Area which accept donated fruit.

  Note: there are agricultural pest quarantines in effect in most populated areas of the SF Bay Area - see our quarantine page for information. Tree owners are not allowed to distribute their own fruit.  Village Harvest receives special services from County Agriculture departments to support our harvesting.

New Other Produce to Donate?

• New June 23, 2009: With the SF Bay agricultural pest quarantines, most gardeners cannot donate their extra produce to food charities.  Village Harvest is exploring a special program that will once again allow gardeners to donate their abundant summer produce for those in need, with the cooperation of the Santa Clara County Division of Agriculture, the state Light Brown Apple Moth project, and food agencies.  Feasibility and details of the program are being worked out; visit this web page for updates.

• Visit our Volunteer pages and join in!

Want to start harvesting in your community?  Or trying to find a harvesting group in your city?

• We keep an expanding directory of harvesting organizations in communities in the US and Canada.
• If you're in Northern California and your community doesn't have an organization, we're growing  - contact us about being a Village Harvest team leader or starting a team.