Falling Fruit Irl.

Falling Fruit is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit around Ireland and direct it to Food Charities. Established in 2015 by Bernie Brannick

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🍎A great event today at Pearse College in Crumlin, picking crab apples! A fun time was had with Ena and her students. Huge thanks for the fruit donation and all the help! Apples go to the wonderful Kingfisher Project in Kimmage where they will be put to good use 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Ardee apples today thanks to Mary Scully who shared her rich harvest for local charities. Picking by Meath man, Dermot, and Bernie Me! Charity Ardee Hospice Homecare. Dermot delivered several kilos to Back Into Daylight Animal Sanctuary. Huge thanks to all involved 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Beautiful weather for our Dundrum apple pick, thanks to donors Caroline and Max. Our wonderful harvesters, Deirdre and Sue, gave so generously of their time and energy to support food charities. Huge thanks to all involved 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Two Shankill donations today thanks to Joan and Paddy, and Úna, for delicious cooking apples. Beautiful weather and beautiful people - Mary and Sandra. They made the task easy and enjoyable! Sandra kindly took care of the delivery to a local charity. Huge thanks to all 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Phibsboro fruit today - great crop of apples from Anne and family. The wonderful team of Deirdre, Patricia and Theresa picked 70 kilos (approx) of apples - which will be put to good use in exchange for a monetary donation to a charity. Huge thanks to all involved 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Friday apples in Sandyford, thanks to Alan and Carmel. Our wonderful harvesters, Deirdre and Patricia braved the rain and picked the apples for charity. Huge thanks to all involved 🍎💚🍎

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🍎 Our kind annual donor, Barbara, in Rathgar, provided eating apples & cooking apples for charity. The A team - Celeste, Ed, Deirdre, Mary, Patricia - did the harvesting and Patricia and Ed took care of the deliveries to D8 & D9. Deeply grateful to all concerned 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Dublin 1 apples today - fabulous large cooking apples donated by Ann and picked by Catherine and Bernie. A local Meals on Wheels were the happy recipients. Some apples also went to feed horses! Full of gratitude to Mother Nature for great harvest abundance 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Friday in Greystones yielded about 90 kilos of delicious apples. Our kind donor, formerly a FF volunteer, helped pick and delivered apples to a hospice. Thanks to our harvesting team - Anne, Deirdre, Geraldine - for great work and great fun. Huge thanks to all involved 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Beautiful balmy weather for our Ballsbridge picking event. Fabulous cooking apples from Alison were delivered to SVP in Donnybrook. The wonderful women harvesters, Deirdre, Mary, Theresa, were first-rate and had the job done in no time. Massive thanks to all 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Two more apple donations - Fran and Tony in D3 - eating apples; Mary and Declan in D6 - cooking apples for charity. Fabulous helpers - Aisling, Celeste, Sue, were awesome, tackling a very difficult tree and taking care of delivery. Apples go to a Drogheda charity. 🙏🏻💚🙏🏻

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@AnnaRDavies Wonderful! Love it!

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🍎Three food charities, a group of bakers & animals benefited from our Thursday & Friday picks this week! Many thanks to harvesters - Barry, Marie, Theresa in Clontarf, & Celeste & Tom in Ballsbridge. Donors were Tom and Phyl in Clontarf & Fergal in Ballsbridge. Huge thanks 🍎

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🍎Rain didn’t stop picking in Donnybrook this morning - thanks to brave Anne, Catherine, Deirdre, Eugene, Joan, Kintilla, Sue, Theresa. We added several crates to yesterday’s shipment for FoodCloud for juicing. Massive appreciation and gratitude to the wonderful volunteers 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Another wonderful Falling Fruit event. Our amazing team - Celeste, Eugene, Geraldine x2, Josephine, Marta, Mary, Sue, Theresa - did great work picking 32 crates of apples! #HappyOutDonnybrook provided some treats. Apples go to FoodCloud. Huge thanks to all 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Fabulous fun fruit pick in Glenageary today. Our valiant volunteers, Anne, Sue and Michelle made quick work of the task with great humour and fun. Huge thanks to them and to donor Françoise. Eating and cooking apples go to a community group in D12🍎💚🍎

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🍎We need extra volunteers for apple picking events next Monday and Tuesday, September 9 and 10. Location Donnybrook, Dublin 4. 10am to 13.00. You need to be comfortable operating with picking poles and ladders. Email [email protected]
FFI is a wholly voluntary project
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🍎Mount Merrion apple pick this morning thanks to Evanna and to two wonderful volunteers - Mary and Celeste. Thanks to Mary for delivering to Dundrum. Great appreciation to all 🍎💚🍎

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🍎Great apple donation from the Brophy family in Rathfarnham this morning. Our wonderful volunteers, Catherine, Josephine and Deirdre, not only picked the apples but delivered them to three different charities. Huge thanks to all 🍎💚🍎