2016 City Citrus Pick Event Scheduled for December 10th

Join Baton Rouge Green with your friends, fam­i­ly, and com­mu­ni­ty for our 3^rd annu­al City Cit­rus Pick Event on Decem­ber 10^th, 2016!

Each year, we pair vol­un­teer pick­ers with res­i­den­tial cit­rus trees that would go unpicked if not for this event. Last year, 39 vol­un­teers har­vest­ed and donat­ed over 5,300 lbs of cit­rus in only a half day. Come out and help us best this num­ber in 2016! This is a great event for all ages!

Fruit Pick­ers will meet with the Baton Rouge Green Team at the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank for break­fast and cof­fee at 8:30a.m., where we will learn about Baton Rouge’s pre­mier food pantry and its recov­ery in the wake of the recent flooding.

After break­fast, all par­tic­i­pants will be bro­ken into groups accord­ing to abil­i­ty to trans­port larg­er quan­ti­ties of fruit to the near­est drop-off point. These drop-off points help free up the pick­ers while mak­ing this event flow more smooth­ly. They are made pos­si­ble by the gen­eros­i­ty of Baton Rouge’s very own, Bofinger’s Tree Ser­vice, spon­sor of Pick Event 2016.

Update: Reg­is­tra­tion for Pick Event 2016 has been closed. Thank you all for your con­tri­bu­tions to Baton Rouge Green and its programming.

We’ll see you on Sat­ur­day! And as always, #SHARETHE­FRUIT