To sign up as a donor, please fill out our “Pick My Fruit” request form by clicking the button below. When you hit the “Submit” button at the bottom of the form, we will receive your information by email and we will contact you to arrange teams of volunteers to go pick your fruit, berries, nuts, etc.
Please be sure to leave either a phone number or email address; we need to be able to contact you!
You may also email us to request a pick at the email skookum@skookumfood.ca or call our Gleaner Coordinator, Brian Hiebert at 604-815-7623 who will gather your donor information.
Gleaner Donor Overview
People with fruit, nuts or vegetables (henceforth ‘donors’) should be prepared to give us some details on what kind of produce they have to offer, when it will be ready to pick, other details like safety, accessibility of the site, specifics on the trees, etc. Skookum Gleaners is not an emergency fruit/nut removal service, so please sign up in advance.
Donors fill out the ‘Pick My Fruit’ donor form (preferred), email us at skookum@skookumfood.ca, or call our Gleaner Coordinator, Brian, at 604-815-7623 to provide donor information (i.e. what kind of fruit, when it usually comes ripe, your location, equipment on site, etc). Our Gleaner Coordinator will check in with you on the status of your ripening fruit to determine the best pick day and organize the Gleaning Team to attend. We do not accept calls for picking blackberries, but everything else that is edible is fair game.
While we cannot absolutely assure donors that their fruit/nuts will be picked in their preferred timeframe, we will do our best to coordinate a team of pickers expediently. If no one has returned your call/email request within 36 hours, please let us know we’ll keep trying.
Thank you for volunteering to donate fruit to our Skookum Gleaners project!
We can’t thank you enough for supporting this project by providing our pickers with an opportunity to pick fruit and a way for food to be salvaged and distributed in our community. Please note that our dedicated team of volunteer gleaners sign a waiver form that releases any fruit donors from liability while we are on your property gleaning.