Falling Fruit 2024

October 10th

🍎Beautiful weather for our Dundrum apple pick, thanks to donors Caroline and Max.
Our wonderful harvesters, Deirdre and Sue, gave so generously of their time and energy to support food charities.
Huge thanks to all involved πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


October 3rd

🍎Two Shankill donations today thanks to Joan and Paddy, and Úna, for delicious cooking apples.
Beautiful weather and beautiful people – Mary and Sandra.
They made the task easy and enjoyable!
Sandra kindly took care of the delivery to a local charity.
Huge thanks to all πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


October 2nd

🍎Phibsboro fruit today – great crop of apples from Anne and family.
The wonderful team of Deirdre, Patricia and Theresa picked 70 kilos (approx) of apples – which will be put to good use in exchange for a monetary donation to a charity.
Huge thanks to all involved πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 27th

🍎Friday apples in Sandyford, thanks to Alan and Carmel.
Our wonderful harvesters, Deirdre and Patricia braved the rain and picked the apples for charity.
Huge thanks to all involved πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 24th

🍎 Our kind annual donor, Barbara, in Rathgar, provided delicious eating apples and high quality cooking apples for charity.
The A team – Celeste, Ed, Deirdre, Mary, Patricia – did the picking and Patricia and Ed took care of the deliveries to The D.8 Food Bank and St.Michael’s House in Santry.
Deeply grateful to all concerned πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 23rd

🍎Dublin 1 apples today – fabulous large cooking apples donated by Ann and picked by Catherine and Bernie.
A local Meals on Wheels were the happy recipients.
Some apples also went to feed horses! Full of gratitude to Mother Nature for great harvest abundance πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 20th

🍎Friday in Greystones yielded about 90 kilos of delicious apples.
Our kind donor, Virginie, formerly a FF volunteer, helped pick and then delivered apples to a hospice.
Thanks to our harvesting team – Anne, Deirdre, Geraldine – for great work and great fun.
Huge thanks to all involved πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 18th

🍎Beautiful balmy weather for our Ballsbridge picking event.
Fabulous cooking apples from Alison were delivered to SVP in Donnybrook.
The wonderful women harvesters, Deirdre, Mary, Theresa, were first-rate and had the job done in no time. Massive thanks to all πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 17th

🍎Two more apple donations – kind friends, Fran and Tony, in D3, offered eating apples; our wonderful repeat donors since 2016, Mary and Declan, in D6, provided cooking apples for charity.
My fabulous helpers – Aisling, Celeste, Sue were awesome – not only with the difficult picking but finding solutions where needed and taking care of delivery.
Apples go to The FoodShare Project -Drogheda region
Huge thanks to all involved πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 12th/13th

🍎Three food charities, a group of bakers and some animals benefited from our Thursday and Friday picks this week!
Many thanks to Thursday harvesters – Barry, Marie, Theresa, and Friday team – Celeste and Tom.
Generous donors were Tom and Phyl in Clontarf and Fergal in Ballsbridge.
Huge thanks πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ

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September 10th

🍎Rain didn’t stop picking in Donnybrook this morning – thanks to the brave volunteers, Anne, Catherine, Deirdre, Eugene, Joan, Kintilla, Sue, Theresa.
We added several crates to yesterday’s shipment for FoodCloud for juicing.
Massive appreciation and gratitude to the wonderful volunteers πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 9th

🍎Another wonderful Falling Fruit event. Our amazing team – Celeste, Eugene, Geraldine x2, Josephine, Marta, Mary, Sue, Theresa – did great work picking 32 crates of apples!
#HappyOutDonnybrook provided some treats.
Apples go to FoodCloud.
Huge thanks to all πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 6th

🍎Fabulous fun fruit pick in Glenageary today.
Our valiant volunteers, Anne, Sue and Michelle (and later Richard, who flew in from the UK via the world, to help us!) made quick work of the task with great humour and fun.
Huge thanks to them and to donor Françoise.
Eating and cooking apples go to a community group in D12πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 4th

🍎Mount Merrion apple pick this morning thanks to Evanna and to two wonderful volunteers – Mary and Celeste.
Thanks to Mary for delivering to Dundrum.
Great appreciation to all πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


September 3rd

🍎Great apple donation from the Brophy family in Rathfarnham this morning.
Our wonderful volunteers, Catherine, Josephine and Deirdre, not only picked the apples but delivered them to three different charities.
Huge thanks to all πŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ


August 22nd

🍎Our first apple pick this 2024 season. Huge thanks to donors Caroline and Iarla – for the third year!
Our wonderful team – Deirdre, Dervilla, James and Tom – did the work.
The apples go to Feed Our Homeless and St. Anne’s City FarmπŸŽπŸ’šπŸŽ