I love grapes.
Love to eat them.
Tonight, I discovered I also love to harvest them.
A group of us urban fruit foragers converged on a Niagara Falls home with one very prolific vine, and snipped and nibbled our way through the easiest Garden of Eating harvest to date. And our first grape harvest, to boot.
No climbing towering and wobbly ladders. No bending into knee-cracking contortions. No stretching our arms farther than we thought possible to reach that one elusive piece of fruit.
Just snip, snip, snip, feet planted firmly on the ground, hands mostly at eye level. It was all so ergonomically correct.
The fruit was beautiful and the help was great company. Thank you @gretz1963 for joining us. I love meeting tweeps in real life.
This is a harvest that never would have happened if I didn't create a Facebook page for The Garden of Eating. (This is where I beg you to "like" us). I wasn't convinced it do much good, but within hours of turning to Mark Zuckerberg for help spreading the word about The Garden of Eating this week, a homeowner, Jeanette, posted that she was happy to share her bounty.
And in the end, we harvested more than 100 pounds of fruit. About 80 pounds of that is destined for Project Share, the food bank in Niagara Falls.
A mother-daughter team joining the effort got a haul of at least 40 pounds that they're delivering to Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold.
All in all, it was a grape — I mean, great — night.
