2500 lbs of Citrus Fruit Harvested and Donated by 50+ Volunteers at 4th City Citrus Pick Event

Baton Rouge, LA, Decem­ber 9, 2017 – Baton Rouge Green held our 4^th Annu­al City Cit­rus Pick Event on Decem­ber 9^th, with 50+ vol­un­teers har­vest­ing over 2500 lbs of cit­rus fruit from vol­un­teer Cit­rus Shep­herds. A day after the famous Snow Day of 2017, our vol­un­teers were not to be deterred! Thanks to their efforts, and the gen­eros­i­ty of over 24 res­i­den­tial Cit­rus Shep­herds who offered their trees, we were able to help pro­vide much need­ed fresh fruit for fam­i­lies in need this hol­i­day sea­son. The fruit, pack­aged and donat­ed to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, will be dis­trib­uted through their food pantry net­work. Food Bank offi­cials report that this fruit pro­vid­ed by Baton Rouge Green’s City Cit­rus pro­gram is often the only fresh fruit they are able to pro­vide their cus­tomers dur­ing the win­ter. Thanks to our won­der­ful part­ners at the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, Lamar Adver­tis­ing and Bofinger’s Tree Service!