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Gleeful Gleaners of Good Cheer is looking for people who can help harvest fruit trees throughout South Whidbey, focusing on apple, Asian pear and pear trees again in 2011. We are especially in need of people who can fill these roles:

• Tree scouts who will be the inital contact person with tree owners, will assess the tree(s), fruit and terrain for suitability for harvest, and will let us know when a tree is ready for harvest. Scouts need to know enough about fruit trees to make these determinations.
• Point persons to pull together harvest teams from our list of volunteers once we have a tree ready
• Processors who are willing to turn apples into forms that will store long-term
• Processing coordinator who will pull together processors when we have a harvest
• Coordinator who will manage our database, receive information about trees that are ready for harvest, find a point person for each harvest from our list of volunteers, and assemble the information packet for the point person. This can all be done from home.

While most of the fruit will be donated to the Good Cheer Food Bank, tree owners and harvesters will share in the bounty.

Want to help? Please contact us by email or complete the volunteer form below.

Volunteer Information

Full name:
Phone:
Address:
City, State, ZIP:
Email:
Birth date if under 16 years old:
	(We’ll need parental consent for you to participate.)
What are you willing to help with? Check all that apply: harvest fruit Which days are you available? week days weekends scout trees and coordinate with tree owners coordinate a harvest team transport fruit once it's harvested prune trees for next year (in February and March) drive another harvester who needs a ride donate or lend equipment: truck ladder(s) picker(s) garden rake(s) other? Please describe:
Do you want to form your own team of harvesters? Yes, I’ll have a team of 4-6 people. No, match me up with other volunteers.
Can you be available on short notice (24 hours)? Yes No
Anything else we should know about you?

Gleaning News

December 21st: Totals to date: 24 tree owners, 51 harvest volunteers, 29 harvests and 2107 pounds of fruit.

September 25th: A record day for us: two harvests involving 12 trees on two properties, 14 volunteers and 494 pounds of fruit!

August 23rd: Busy day! In addition to harvesting fruit from plum and apple trees, we held our second orientation session. We continue to find new volunteers and trees.

Photo gallery. We'll post photos as we get them on our new gallery page.

Cover story. The South Whidbey Record ran a feature story about the Gleeful Gleaners on August 7, 2010.

See the article

Related news article. A New York Times article from June describes similar projects around the country.