Here's our #LifecyclesProjectSociety numbers for our 2025 season:

Total #harvest: 64,691lbs

Total (A-Grade) donated to 75+ service agencies though the #FoodShare Network: 32,883lbs.

Total kept by pickers and harvest leads: 14,245lbs.

Total kept by stewards: 4,460lbs.

Total used by Lifecycles for fruit processing & pressing: 7,240lbs.

Total compost (none to the landfill!): 5863lbs.

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#LifecyclesProjectSociety #FruitTreeProject Update.

This year, we have harvested over 63,000 lbs of fruit! Of that, almost 32,000 lbs of Grade A fruit has been donated to the community, to over 70 community service agencies throughout the Greater Victoria Area. Our tree stewards have kept 4,500 lbs, and our amazing team of 191 Harvest Leads and Pickers have taken 13,000 lbs home. 

What about the other 13,500 lbs you ask? 

Made up of B-Grade, we have processed just over 7500 lbs into juice and jam. Some of the fruit is always C-Grade (compost). To date, we have composted just under 6000 lbs of fruit - while some of this has gone to our friends at Community Composting, the vast majority has gone to a local pig farmer.

We are proud to say no fruit has gone into the landfill!

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#LifecyclesProjectSociety partnered with local #IceCream maker - #ColdComfort. They created a #LocalFirst - #pear ice cream. It's made from some of the pears we gleaned around the community as part of our #FruitTreeProject.

Their website:
https://www.coldcomfort.ca/

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https://lifecyclesproject.ca/

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We filled up 11 boxes with freshly picked #GrannySmith #apples yesterday. Me, Hannah & 2 volunteers went out on a small pick(1 tree). An excellent harvest gleaning day - for Hannah's last day with LifeCycles.

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