Leeds Urban Harvest

Leeds Urban Harvest 🍏🍎🍏🍎Reducing the waste of surplus fruit from across Leeds. We think that the more fruit that gets harvested and used, the better! Let us know!

We support the collection and redistribution of surplus autumn fruit, make juice and other products, and support dozens of community juicing days with our kit borrowing project. 🍎🍏🍎🍏 Each year, thousands of fruit trees across the city go unpicked because their owners can’t harvest them or there is too much fruit to use at one time. Leeds Urban Harvest is a community project that collects, processe

s and makes use of surplus fruit that would otherwise go to waste, from trees and bushes in both public and private spaces. We started in 2009 as a grassroots group collecting and foraging fruit from Leeds gardens and public spaces. As we built up a bank of fruit picking and processing equipment we started lending it out to community groups to do their own picking and processing. Are you a tree owner or know of any trees going unpicked? http://www.leedsurbanharvest.org.uk/local-fruit/

In 2017, we have started to scale-up the amount of apple processing we are doing so we can make use of more surplus fruit (mostly apples and pears) and so we can become a more stable social enterprise. Any money raised from equipment hire and juice sales is put back into the project. If you want to get involved please get in touch. [email protected]


We are part of Leeds Permaculture Network.

Day 2 of Mission Apple Squash a complete success. Thanks to all the volunteers, including the fab team from Horsforth To...
18/10/2025

Day 2 of Mission Apple Squash a complete success. Thanks to all the volunteers, including the fab team from Horsforth Town of Sanctuary

Lots of apple juice pasteurised anLeeds Bread Co-opHead down to who are fully stocked up of Leeds Urban Harvest juice.

If you want to get involved, or if you have a surplus fruit to donate, weAll Hallows' Church, Leedsain for the Apple Day and Halloween event on 31st October, with a follow up pasteurising session on Saturday 1st November.

Day 1 of Mission Apple Squash is well underway at today with the help of volunteers.Tomorrow we will be heading down t...
17/10/2025

Day 1 of Mission Apple Squash is well underway at today with the help of volunteers.

Tomorrow we will be heading down to for day 2 where we will be pressing more apples, as well as teaching people how to use the pasteurising kit.

About a tonne of fruit intercepted from going to waste.

Get in touch or come on down to help out tomorrow between 10-6. All help appreciated.

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This Friday we need your help. We are coming into peak apple season and we have lots of apples to wash to squash or dist...
22/09/2025

This Friday we need your help. We are coming into peak apple season and we have lots of apples to wash to squash or distribute.

We will be out the back of processing as much surplus fruit as possible and we need your help.

It will be at the same time as so if you are visiting, please lend us a hand, we would really appreciate it.

A lovely day at the very first Horsforth Green Fair. Very haply to have been part of it.Thank you to Leeds City of Sanct...
21/09/2025

A lovely day at the very first Horsforth Green Fair. Very haply to have been part of it.

Thank you to Leeds City of Sanctuary who were an amazing help throughout the day, and to all the other helpers who came along and washed, chopped, squashed and juiced with us.

See you all next year. Well done for putting on such a fab event

Of course, we love all our apple donations equally, but some really are a little bit special.We had these beauties dropp...
19/09/2025

Of course, we love all our apple donations equally, but some really are a little bit special.

We had these beauties dropped off at the Donation Station this week. These were definitely too good to go into juice so, after the farm choir got one each, the rest went up to

Who knows what this variety might be?

The devastating moment that you realise you just put half a tonne of surplus apples between you and the box of snacks an...
19/09/2025

The devastating moment that you realise you just put half a tonne of surplus apples between you and the box of snacks and tea bags 😩😭🍎🍏🍎🍏

Luckily a lot of this fruit will be going out so support groups in the community over the next few days.

Please give us a vote to help us with mission distribute and preserve surplus fruit in Leeds. Leeds Urban Harvest is par...
19/09/2025

Please give us a vote to help us with mission distribute and preserve surplus fruit in Leeds. Leeds Urban Harvest is part of Leeds Permaculture Network, helping connect people and projects to support each other and learn how we can support people and nature.

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More Donation Station Locations coming your way! TCV Hollybush are back up and running their station this year. They wil...
17/09/2025

More Donation Station Locations coming your way! TCV Hollybush are back up and running their station this year. They will be hosting their Apple Day on Sunday 5th October, so please send some donations their way.

Whatever they can’t use, we will collect and distribute or process to make sure the autumn fruit of Leeds doesn’t go to waste.

Hollybush will be a donation station for Leeds Urban Harvest again this year! 🍎🍏🍐

You can drop off your surplus harvest of apples and pears Monday-Friday, 10.00-15.00. Please follow the guidance on the Donation Station Information sheet. More info on donating at https://leedsurbanharvest.org.uk

Hollybush Apple Day will be taking place on Sunday 5th October between 11am and 3pm. More info to follow soon!

have their annual Apple Day coming up this week. They are in need of a few extra apples. If you have any to donate, con...
16/09/2025

have their annual Apple Day coming up this week. They are in need of a few extra apples.

If you have any to donate, contact them about where best to drop them off.

We’ve been looking at some of the mesmerising patterns on apple leaves for some inspiration over the last few days.Watch...
15/09/2025

We’ve been looking at some of the mesmerising patterns on apple leaves for some inspiration over the last few days.

Watch this space, there might just be some Leeds Urban Harvest merch coming soon.

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