Returning Stewards: Lyons Area Harvest Request

Welcome back, Lyons Area Tree Stewards! If you have fruit trees in the Lyons area, we want to harvest for you! Harvesting your fruit in urban areas will help to reduce attractants for our black bear neighbors, therefore keeping people and bears safe.

If you've found this page, then you've already registered your tree(s) with Community Fruit Rescue in the past. Please note that we've updated our harvest coordination efforts in 2024 in an effort to simplify the process for our small team, volunteers, and our tree stewards. Please read on to get the full scoop.

Additional info

Unless there is notable bear activity in/near your fruit trees, Community Fruit Rescue will not harvest unripe fruit and reserves the right to cancel harvests if the fruit is deemed premature. Visit our main site for more info on which fruits CFR will and won't harvest, how to tell when your fruit is ripe, and more.


For RETURNING tree stewards in Lyons

  1. Fill out the form below to request your harvest
  2. Our Harvest Coordinator will follow up in a separate email to confirm your harvest date & details, or add you to CFR's waitlist

Community Fruit Rescue’s harvest services come in high demand; to support our small nonprofit organization, any donation you have the capacity to give will be greatly appreciated and go a long way towards helping reduce food waste and conflicts with local black bears in our communities! Any amount helps - donate here

All of our volunteers are required to sign a release of liability. Furthermore, you are protected from liability by the Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, a federal law that encourages people and businesses to donate food to charity.

Privacy: Information entered here is used solely by Community Fruit Rescue and will not be available to the public. We do not share, sell or otherwise distribute your personal information.

If you have other questions, please contact us at harvest@fruitrescue.org.


*Tree steward's last name

*Tree steward's first name

*Phone number

*Email address

*Harvest site address

Bear Activity
The next three questions are about black bears. Why are we talking about bears, you ask? By harvesting the surplus fruit growing throughout Boulder, we are helping to protect the local black bears that wander into town in search of food. Urban areas are not safe places for large animals like black bears; please help us be better neighbors to our wildlife by answering these questions about bears. Contact bears@fruitrescue.org with questions.

*Have you experienced bear activity on your property this year?

*If yes, roughly when did the bear activity occur?

*What did the bear activity consist of?

Other activity

Please select one of the following weeks during which your harvest will be scheduled. Remember to consider the ripeness of your fruit!

After submitting this form, our Harvest & Programs Coordinator will reach out to you over email with a specific date and time.

*Community Fruit Rescue reserves the right to schedule anytime during the weeklong windows listed below.

*Please list the quantity and type of fruit tree(s) you’d like Community Fruit Rescue to harvest. For each tree, please provide as much detail as possible about the tree size, location, and abundance of fruit. This helps us plan for a successful harvest with our volunteers! (Ex: 1 apple tree: 25 ft tall, needs a ladder to reach the top fruit, located in the backyard on grass, and is extremely full of red apples.)

*Our volunteers expect to harvest at least a 40 lb crate of fruit at each harvest. Do you feel you have this amount of fruit to pick?

*Have the trees been sprayed or treated in the past year?
Yes, with a common insecticide or pesticide.
Yes, but it is non-toxic.
No

Do you have a curbside compost bin or a backyard composter available for the compost-grade fruit?
No
Yes
Not sure

*Do you wish to keep one-quarter of the harvest?
No, thanks. Donate it all!
Some, but less than one-quarter
Yes, please - and I'll have containers out for volunteers to fill.

*Have you made a donation of $100 or more to guarantee your harvest?
Yes
No
I would like to receive financial assistance from CFR so I can schedule a guaranteed harvest
I’m participating through CFR’s Human-Bear Conflict Reduction Initiative in Lyons
I'm not sure, please follow up with me

*If you made a donation to guarantee your harvest, please specify which donation method you used.
Online donation through fruitrescue.org
Mailed a check
PayPal
This does not apply to me
Other:

*If you made a donation to receive a guaranteed harvest, please let us know of any scheduling preferences and/or conflicts you may have during the week-long range selected above.

In the event that you are not home during the scheduled harvest time, are there any special instructions we need to access your fruit trees?

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