NEW VILLAGE HARVEST TEAM IN MT. VIEW:
A new regular Village Harvest team is starting at the Mt. View Community Services Agency. Karen Hurst will be leading this team that will meet every 2nd and 4th Sunday mornings starting in June.
If you are interested in joining a small group of folks, picking fruit for fun and exercise, on Sunday mornings in Mt. View, let us know. The team plans to be out for 2-3 hours, picking 1-3 homes depending upon size and finishing by noon. The fruit will be donated to Mt. View CSA's brown bag program and of course, you're welcome to take fruit for yourself. Contact karen@villageharvest.org to sign up.
Instructions for harvesting volunteers:
HARVESTING FOR THE HUNGRY, MT. VIEW - 5/23
Village Harvest is partnering with Mountain View Community Services Agency and Congregation Beth Am to harvest fruit grown in nearby backyards to feed the hungry. We will be harvesting late season citrus.
Sunday, May 23rd
10:30 am - 3:30pm
Mountain View Community Services Agency
204 Stierlin Rd., Mountain View
Please RSVP to
jenne@villageharvest.org if you
will be joining us so we know how many homes to commit to. Please bring
a lunch as we will be picnicking in the park before returning to Mt. View CSA to finish
unloading and the big weigh-in. The Master Gardener Crazy for Citrus cookbook and Village
Harvest preserves will also be available for sale. If you'd like a
specific flavor, check the
web-site
and place an order.
Village Harvest volunteer, Rosemary Stasek, is looking for mason/canning jars for a preserving project for women in Afghanistan. She will be teaching them modern preserving practices so that they can start their own small businesses with the help of a micro-loan program. Your donations are tax-deductible as a donation to "a little help...". See http://www.stasek.com/alittlehelp/
This preserving project directly helps the women of Afghanistan be more independent, now that they can work again, and encourages growing of food, not drugs.
Especially needed are smaller jars in 1/2 pints or pints. If you have metal rings, even rusty ones, they help to protect the rims of the jars during shipping. Jars need to be mason/canning jars because everything gets reused in Afghanistan.
If you have jars & rings to send into the
world to do more good than they would in your garage, contact
rosemary@stasek.com.
New, high-quality garden tools being sold at great prices. Shovels of all kinds, spades, racks, cultivators and miscellaneous other stuff.
Saturday, May 22nd
8:30am - 12:30pm
Willow Glen Farmer's Market
corner of Lincoln & Minnesota, San Jose
Look for the garden tool booth in back
This sale is being hosted by Lowell Cordas of
Professional Horticulture Associates for a
friend that is liquidating his garden tool business. He expects to sell
out so be early for best selection.
VILLAGE HARVEST TO DATE: 34,185 lbs!
1370 lbs! 1120 lbs! Those are our single tree records so far for this year. They are both grapefruit trees with delicious fruit. Those trees could feed a small... uh... village.
We're nearly 35k lbs for the year! Amazing
work. Thank you all!
| Date / Day | Time | Event | Meeting Place | Notes |
| May 18, Tuesday | 8:15 am - 3:00 pm | Community Fruit Harvesting, W. San Jose, Citrus - Postponed | ||
| May 21, Friday | 11:30 am - 2:30 pm | Preserving from the Garden | contact joni@villageharvest.org if you're interested in this event | Freezing techniques |
| May 23, Sunday | 10:30 am - 3:30 pm | Harvesting for the Hungry | Mt. View CSA, 204 Stierlin Rd., Mt. View | Late season Citrus with Congregation Beth Am. RSVP to jenne@villageharvest.org |
| May 25, Tuesday | 8:15 am - 3:00 pm | Community Fruit Harvesting, W. San Jose, Citrus | Meet 8:15 am, SHFB Volunteer Room. | You must RSVP for this event and be registered as a SHFB volunteer |
| June 1, Tuesday | 8:15 am - 3:00 pm | Community Fruit Harvesting, Willow Glen, San Jose, Citrus | Meet 8:15 am, SHFB Volunteer Room. | You must RSVP for this event and be registered as a SHFB volunteer |
| June 8, Tuesday | 8:15 am - 3:00 pm | Community Fruit Harvesting, TBD, Citrus | Meet 8:15 am, SHFB Volunteer Room. | You must RSVP for this event and be registered as a SHFB volunteer |
| June 13, Sunday | 9:00 am - 12:00 PM | Community Fruit Harvesting, Mt. View, Citrus | Meet 9:00 am, Mt. View CSA | contact karen@villageharvest.org if you'd like to join in. |
| June 15, Tuesday | 8:15 am - 3:00 pm | Community Fruit Harvesting, TBD, Citrus | Meet 8:15 am, SHFB Volunteer Room. | You must RSVP for this event and be registered as a SHFB volunteer |
| June 22, Tuesday | 8:15 am - 3:00 pm | Community Fruit Harvesting, TBD, Citrus | Meet 8:15 am, SHFB Volunteer Room. | You must RSVP for this event and be registered as a SHFB volunteer |
| June 27, Sunday | 9:00 am - 12:00 PM | Community Fruit Harvesting, Mt. View, Citrus | Meet 9:00 am, Mt. View CSA | contact karen@villageharvest.org if you'd like to join in. |
Remember that the best tasting, tree ripened fruit goes home with the volunteers, as it will be too ripe to go through distribution at the Second Harvest Food Bank. Perfect for people who like to make preserves. All dates subject to change based upon ripening and weather.
Subscribe / Unsubscribe to this Newsletter:
You have been added to this list because of past participation or interest. Please REPLY to this email to be removed from this distribution list.