Joni Diserens
Joni Diserens
area berkeley efforts good perhaps response spend
But we're getting a good response from Berkeley homeowners, so we'll see how it goes. We'll experiment, perhaps in the Fruitvale area in Oakland, or Vacaville. We want to see if it's more fruitful, if you will, to spend our efforts there.
apple fit fruit picked pounds shocks tree
The thing that shocks you is how much fruit is in one tree. Once we picked 400 pounds from one apple tree - we couldn't even fit into the car.
biggest challenge fruit funding growth program
Our biggest challenge now is funding the program with the growth we're seeing. There's a lot of fruit to be harvested out there.
agencies backyard county feeding fruit interest
We've had a lot of interest in Alameda County from agencies feeding the hungry. They want more produce, and there's a lot of backyard fruit not being harvested.
luxury ongoing year
We go all year around because we have the luxury of ongoing harvests.
call found fruit harvest identify kinds love people trees
When the participants told me they couldn't find anything to can, I told them to go out and identify different kinds of fruit trees in their own neighborhoods. When people found out we were doing this, they started to call me at home, saying, 'Please come harvest our fruit tree. We'd love to give people the fruit.' Pretty soon, I had 50 names.