Every year, thousands of pounds of residential fruit drops without being harvested as most tree owners can’t – or don’t – use all the fruit produced on their properties. Meanwhile, many people living on low incomes have limited access to fresh fruit, which is vital to a healthy diet.

Mississauga Fruit Tree organizes volunteers to harvest surplus fruit before it falls, and the bounty is shared between the tree owners, volunteers and food banks. This is done on a not-for-profit basis. The food is here in our community growing on the fruit trees in our backyards, but what we need are many helping hands to bring the food to those most in need.

Home owners register their fruit trees and teams of volunteers provide the hands to harvest fruit so that those living on a limited income have fresh fruit to eat.

For more information or to register for this program, please visit www.mississaugafruittree.org.