Cherry Harvest 2023

Families from the community gathered in the park to help harvest the cherry trees. Photo credit: OrchardPeople.com

What a fantastic day everyone! Families from all around our community came for our community cherry harvest this year and the hardest workers were all under three feet tall!

We gathered the cherries in bowls and then, once the trees had been fully harvested, we divided up the bounty so that all participants had a share of the harvest. Thanks for joining us! And thanks to the amazing Ben Nobleman Park Volunteers who helped to ensure that the event went smoothly!

Check out the images below.

All the cherries were harvested and put in bowls. Once the harvest was over the bounty was distributed fairly among all the participants. Photo credit: OrchardPeople.com
This year teenage volunteer Eleanor has spent hours helping the team care for the parks trees and gardens, On cherry harvest day, she was able to reap the sweet rewards. Photo credit: OrchardPeople.com
Alex, a volunteer and newcomer from Ukraine, hopped into the tree to help hand the cherries down to the children below. Photo credit: OrchardPeople.com
From left to right: Miriam, Gail, Jihane, Giselle and Lawrence were among the volunteers that came to help out during the harvest event. Photo credit: OrchardPeople.com

We hope to be able to enjoy many more harvests in the years to come!

To be sustainable in the long term, the Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard needs volunteers to join us and help care for the trees and gardens and to help plan events and activities in our park.

Would you like to join us? Send an email to growingforgreen (at) gmail.com!

On the table, Susan Poizner, Coordinator of the Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard, welcomes participants ahead of distributing the harvest. Photo Credit: Deborah Baumgarten.

Susan Poizner is one of the volunteers for The Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard in Toronto. She is the creator of the fruit tree care education website OrchardPeople.com.  Susan is the author of four fruit tree care books including Grow Fruit Trees Fast: A Beginner’s Guide to a Healthy Harvest in Record Time. She is also the host of the Orchard People podcast and an ISA Certified Arborist.