A Fruitful Task

It's apples! A big tree with fruit. It has the juice. It has the juice. I can't imagine a more beautiful thing.

Today, a crack team of GoodGym York ran and cycled to help out Abundance York. Abundance York pick fruit from private gardens and council land around York. The apples picked are distributed to foodbanks, homeless cooking projects, and community centres, and Abundance prioritise deprived areas of York.

On this occasion, they have access the apple trees on the site of an old care home. The twist? The care home is being sold on Friday, so there's a limited time for Abundance to save as many fruit as possible before the property changes hands.

8 of us showed up, and enjoyed using various grabbers to fill up as many crates with apples as we could. There were even some awe inspiring displays of tree climbing to reach some of the sneakier apples hiding in the canopy. Within an hour we'd filled several boxes and headed off - we'll see if we can help at all at this site again before the week ends, but in any case we can always do a core workout to help Abundance.

Here's an update we got from Ruth at Abundance later in the day: The team picked 10 crates of apples in the end. Awesome work! 192kg of "good" apples as well as 30kg or so of windfalls (Good bramleys at Waitrose prices are 2.25/kg so that would be £432 of apples) All going out to good causes around York, including a first delivery to "Choose To Youth" tonight. (https://www.choose2youth.co.uk/ ) this evening, and a couple of bags to Acomb foodbank tomorrow morning.