On a sunny Wednesday morning, the apple pickers from Fruit Share Brandon were hard at it — reaching high and plucking fruit from the trees in a backyard on the city’s North Hill.

All four volunteers were perched on ladders and eye level with the branches. Two of them were armed with a special fruit-gathering tool that had an extended handle, allowing them to reach even farther.

Each item from the fruits of their labour is donated, said Fruit Share co-ordinator Kathy Bruederlin.

“Anything that people want us to pick, we will come,” Bruederlin said.

“And when we’re finished, we fill up my van and I drive around Brandon to places like Samaritan House Ministries, the YWCA women’s shelter and a lot of the seniors’ residences. That way they can make things like apple crisp, pie or even freez

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