14 days ago by fruitloopff

Last Sunday’s holiday quick pick in North Hollywood yielded 146 lbs of ripe grapefruits and oranges! A big thanks to all volunteers for their strong enthusiasm and efforts to get every last piece of ripe fruit! Please check back here on our blog and on Facebook (group: food forward) /Twitter (foodfo ...

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22 days ago by Cut

Flowers aren’t just for Valentine’s Day. Pick any holiday where families might be gathering, and decorative floral Centerpieces are a popular gift. Thanksgiving is a prime example. One of the busiest travel days of the year, Thanksgiving is one of those holidays when families converge from all over ...

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35 days ago by fruitloopff

What an amazing Food Forward pick we had last Sunday in Granada Hills. It was a perfect day in a beautiful, two row, 16 tree orange orchard. And together, we harvested 1,789 lbs of oranges! This brings Food Forward’s YTD total to 60,649 pounds of fresh fruit gleaned and donated to our local food pan ...

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44 days ago by fruitloopff

Last Sunday we had a two-home pick in Northridge which yielded 648 lbs of some of the sweetest oranges! Thank you, volunteers, for being so ready and willing to glean the impromptu trees as well as the planned ones! Just wanted to let all of you know that all of the November picks (except the Weds 1 ...

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64 days ago by fruitloopff

We really appreciate the mention in the Glendale News Press: Organization shares bounty http://tinyurl.com/yj29sev Do you live in Glendale/Burbank/Pasadena and have fruit trees with excess fruit? (oranges/grapefruit/lemons/limes/pomegranate/persimmon/guava/fig/avocado, etc.) Call us at 818-530-4125 ...

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66 days ago by fruitloopff

We were invited back this morning to harvest more of the tomato crop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills – with 100% going to SOVA and will be back for more later in the week (Tuesday and Saturday – weather permitting) – It’ll be a muddy and fun time – so if you missed out on other October picks and ...

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78 days ago by littlefarminthecity

What is summer without Mulberries? Our tree is in its third year and wowie what a bumper harvest I am getting!

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81 days ago by fruitloopff

A BIG thanks to the two families who came out this morning to N. Hills to volunteer with us and help pick 484 lbs of fresh juicy grapefruits and limes just given to SOVA to help feed LA’s hungry! Great work Maya, Steven, Ethan, Eli, Mike, Justin and Zachary! [...]

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84 days ago by fruitloopff

September has brought a surge of hundreds of Food Forward volunteer sign-ups – Literally a month like no other in the short eight months we’ve been around! To get a chance to catch up, meet you all, introduce you to some of the work we are doing, and ways you can be involved with us, we are having a ...

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107 days ago by fruitloopff

If you thought Day 1 of FRUITSTOCK was exciting, Day 2 was insane! With the social activities and partying behind us, we set out to try and match the tremendous effort of Day 1 and we did. Over 6,000 lbs of fresh free grapefruits were added to the 5,000 lbs of oranges and in case you think it was al ...

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