The Awesome RonBravo » grapefruit http://www.ronbravo.com/weblog Amazing and Astounding Tales of Adventure Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:37:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.ronbravo.com/weblog http://www.ronbravo.com/files/my_avatar_2009_02_02.ico The Awesome RonBravo Citrus Glean – 2009.03.29 http://www.ronbravo.com/weblog/2009_03_29/citrus-glean-20090329/ http://www.ronbravo.com/weblog/2009_03_29/citrus-glean-20090329/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:04:21 +0000 ronbravo http://www.ronbravo.com/weblog/?p=790 Continue reading →]]> Well another successful Citrus Glean. We had about 14 volunteers and managed to fill up the whole U-HAUL trailer. I was worried at first that we may not have enough people but I was wrong. We had enough. The other nice thing was that we had repeat people. Five people that were at the very first glean that we had also showed up for this one. I guess they had so much fun that they decided to come back. The guys from Paradise Community College also had fun and seemed interested in coming back if we did this again. Finally we discovered that one of the coordinators for the ASU AmeriCorps was at the glean. Mina, mentioned that she is responsible for getting in contact with several of the student volunteers at ASU and letting of know of opportunities for help people out. She took our information and said that she would keep us in mind when sending out information to her fellow students. Here are some pictures.

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So another nice Citrus Glean hosted by Arizona Homegrown Solutions.

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Not as many people as last time but we still managed to pick a lot of fruit. I think somewhere around 1200 pounds. The cool thing was that a friend from work Alfonso Elenes decided to come along for the trip. He’s the one who took most of the pictures this time. Enjoy.

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From what I understand this is becoming more popular with people who have fruit trees. They are also very grateful that we are doing this since it would normally cost them about $150 dollars to hire a person to come out and pick the tree for them. After that the fruit is usually just thrown away. So in the end the Citrus Gleaning is working out well for everyone.

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