Our most exciting upcoming events have been posted. What’s happening? Check out the list below and see our Events page for details.

• Fruit Harvests all season long!
• Saturday, March 10th – OFRE Design Charette
• Sunday, March 18th – Seedy Sunday
• Sunday, April 8th – OFRE Annual General Meeting
• April 2018 – West Edmonton Mall Volunteer Fair, Exact date TBD
• Saturday, April 28th – Resilience Festival hosted by Edmonton Permaculture Guild
• Saturday, May 12th – Orchard Opening & Maintenance
• Sunday, May 27th – Orchard Workshop – Planting Annuals & Perennials
• June 2018 – Rhubarb Bike Run, , Exact date TBD
• Sunday, June 10th – Bench Building
• June 2018 – Espalier Workshop, Exact date TBD
• June 2018 – Apple Maggot Control Workshop, Exact date TBD
• Sunday, June 24th – Bench Building & Orchard Maintenance
• July 2018 – Training for Volunteers on How to Use the Cider Pressing Equipment, , Exact date TBD
• Sunday, August 12th – Cider Pressing & Orchard Maintenance #1
• August 2018 – Potluck With Edmonton Permaculture Guild, Exact date TBD
• Sunday, August 26th – Cider Pressing & Orchard Maintenance #2
• August 2018 – Open Farm Days
• Sunday, September 9th – Cider Pressing & Orchard Maintenance #3
• September 2018 – Permies at the Pub, Exact date TBD
• September 2018 – Community League Day, Exact date TBD
• Sunday, September 23rd –  Cider Pressing & Orchard Maintenance #4
• September 2018 – Canning Workshop, Exact date TBD
• September 2018 – Pressing Workshop, John Walter House Museum, Exact date TBD
• Sunday, October 7th – Cider Pressing & Orchard Maintenance #5
• Monday, November 19th – Volunteer Appreciation Party!

Download the event list: OFRE Upcoming Events 2018.

Join us to pick fruit, press apple cider, attend a workshop and give back to your community. Sign up as a member to our organization to get access to locally grown fruit. As a member you will have the opportunity to attend many fruit picks over the summer season. We look forward to meeting you.

Note: The schedule is subject to change, but we do our best to provide the most accurate event details possible. Please check back to the OFRE website for the most current and up to date information.

Valentine’s Day is one week away! Make your love the sustainable kind with an OFRE membership! Whether you buy a membership for your Valentine or for yourself, you will be giving back to your community when you help to harvest local fruit during our picking season.

So sign up today!

Gift memberships are available too!

#localfruitlove

Save on your 2018 membership by buying it in 2017!

It’s true, we haven’t raised our membership rates since our inception and for the very first time in 2018 we will be increasing our prices by $5 per membership.

Stuck for a terrific gift idea? Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton has a fruitful solution: a 2018 OFRE membership!

Purchase a Gift Membership for your loved one today and they will receive the gift via email on Christmas Day.

First picking event of the year. Come join us! 10 spaces offered. Free & Family friendly!

Ride will be led by Bonnie Patterson-Payne, OFRE member

Saturday June 10, 2017

1 pm until 4 pm(ish)

Event starting location:
King Edward Park Community
7708-85 St NW
Edmonton, AB T6C 4K9

Meet at the parking lot next to the park!

Ride to 5 houses picking rhubarb in Avonmore, Hazel Dean and Argyll and King Edward Park districts. Rhubarb will be divided between pickers, home owners and charity. Donations will go to YESS on Whyte Avenue.

Bike and helmet required and a backpack/bike bags or trailer to carry rhubarb.

Dress for the weather.

Weather permitting (heavy rain and thunderstorms may cause a postponement of meet to Sunday June 11 at same location and time). Volunteers will be notified Saturday morning!

Register NOW! (2 spaces are available):

Eventbrite

We encourage you to sign up as on OFRE member which allows you to come to all our other fruit picks of the summer.