Welcome Volunteers
New Volunteers
Kitsap Harvest relies on volunteers like you who give their time and energy to help enrich our communities. Click below to register.
We use the Point App for all our volunteer events. Click below to find this website. You must register on the Point before you can sign up for an event.
Existing Volunteers
If you’ve already registered as a volunteer (both via our registration and the Point App), take a look below at some of our upcoming opportunities and sign up for an open slot. If you’re looking to chat, send us a note at info@kitsapharvest.org
Check Out Our Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities!
Too Much Fruit on Your Fruit Trees?
Allow us to glean your fruit!
If you are a Kitsap County Homeowner, Farmer, Gardener, or Grow A Row Captain with fruit trees on your property, you can help relieve hunger. Kitsap Harvest will provide pickers/gleaners to harvest and donate all or any portion of your produce to those in need.
Why donate
You’ll be helping people in need, and you’ll be part of the larger effort to relieve hunger in our area.
You’ll receive a tax-deductible receipt for your donation of produce.
You’ll be free of the mess created by fruit lying on the ground, which can be an attractant for pests.
How to Donate
Register your trees using our online form. We will contact you and arrange for our volunteers to harvest your produce. Depending on how much you need harvested, crews of 1 to 20 will come to your property and carefully harvest your trees. When requested, we will set some aside for you. Additionally, Kitsap Harvest will pick up fruit which has already been picked, if you wanted to pick yourselves.
Please don’t wait until your fruit is totally ripe! We would rather have you contact us before your produce is over ripe. This will help us to plan better and provide the freshest produce possible as we distribute it.
Food donors may be eligible for tax deductions or tax credits and will receive documentation of crop types and amounts to submit with tax returns.
Food donors are also protected under the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which provides limited liability protection for people who make good faith donations of food and grocery products to nonprofits that feed the hungry. Read more about the act here.
If you wish to donate fruit from your property, click below to fill out the form, or if you have any questions get in touch with us directly by sending us an email at gleaning@kitsapharvest.org. Be sure to check out the FAQ, as your question may already be answered.
