By community reporter
Volunteers from Horsforth Climate Action have collected more than one and a quarter tonnes of apples and pears from trees that would otherwise have gone to waste.
Residents have picked their own fruit and donated it, but a team of six volunteers have picked fruit from gardens where the owners didn’t have time or ability to do this.
Horsforth Climate Action volunteers have also picked fruit from the community orchard at Calverley Lane, Broadgate Primary School and Children’s Centre and allotments at Springfield and Willow Green.
A spokesperson said: “Over one and a quarter tonnes of fruit has been collected, nearly double last year.
“Baking apples have been kept for Horsforth Community Café, eating apples have gone to the Community Café and Community Pantry and small apples were juiced at HCA’s Green Festival last month.”
Over 60 crates of apples for juicing have been passed onto Leeds Urban Harvest for juicing.
Horsforth Climate Acton has been running for three years and was established to help Leeds become zero carbon, nature-friendly, and socially just by the 2030s.
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