OFRE cider, jams, and syrups for sale on September 1st!
This year has been an amazing one for OFRE in terms of community connections, newly recruited volunteers, and new projects outside of picking fruit. Many of our volunteer pickers are not only...
View ArticlePear Jammin’ Night
It’s pear season, and what better to do with LOTS of pears, than make yummy preserves out of them to last us into the winter! This particular variety of pear is called the Ure Pear. They turn a...
View ArticleOFRE volunteers help glean a strawberry u-pick farm
On a hot, sunny afternoon at the end of July, OFRE volunteers went out to a starwberry u-pick farm North of Edmonton towards Gibbons to glean the patch at the end of the season. Not only did we get to...
View ArticleOFRE volunteers go gleaning at a saskatoon u-pick farm
As word gets around about OFRE and our picking fruit capabilities we are getting requests from farms to help out with the harvest this year. The excellent weather we have had this year of warmth and...
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