Les Fruits Défendus
This independent collective links fruit tree owners in Montreal with volunteer pickers to try to ensure that precious local food resources are not wasted. After harvest, the fruit that is picked is divided between the fruit tree owner, volunteer pickers and our organization.
Corbeille de Pain is proud to be assisting in the expansion of this collective, hosted by Santropol Roulant, to the West Island.
Fruit Tree Owners
West Island residents: Do you have a fruit tree or two in your yard? Volunteers who have signed up with Les Fruits Défendus can come and harvest the fruit when it's ripe: cherries, saskatoon berries, plums, pears, apples, grapes, redcurrant, gooseberries, and more.
Please click on the following button to register.
Volunteer Pickers
We need volunteers to pick the fruits when they are ripe. Not only will you be helping your neighbours and a local non-profit organization, as well as learn about harvesting fruit, but you will also get to keep a third of all the fruit that you have picked!
Interested? Please click on the button below to register.
Harvest Calendar
One third of the fruit picked in the West Island will go to Corbeille de Pain to be used in food transformation, so no wasted fruit!
Please click on the button below to view the schedule for all of the upcoming fruit tree harvests in the Montreal area.