Harvesting apples and saving bears 

Community Fruit Rescue volunteers and harvesters. Photo Courtesy of Melanie Hill.

It’s harvest season in Boulder County and local trees are full of fruit that has ripened quickly with recent hot weather. The bounty is a blessing and a problem. On Radio Nibbles, John Lehndorff talked with Melanie Hill, Executive Director of Boulder’s Community Fruit Rescue, about the non-profit’s efforts to harvest fruit from backyard trees to keep bears out of trouble, supply food banks and feed farm animals.

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To volunteer labor: fruitrescue.org.

You can read John’s columns at boulderweekly.com and listen to Radio Nibbles and Kitchen Table Talk episodes right here, at kgnu.org.

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