{"id":803,"date":"2025-01-28T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/?p=803"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:28:50","slug":"what-do-we-do-with-all-the-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/2025\/01\/what-do-we-do-with-all-the-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Do with All the Fruit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jake Price, Mary Sutton, Doug Collins, Jacob Kalina, Josh Dawson, Holly Anderson, Michasia Dowdy, Sara Curry, Ben Reeves, Tucker Price, Sydni Ingram, and Justin Shealey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you do with all the fruit at the Citrus Research Plot? This is a common question I get from people about the citrus research plot in Valdosta. We donate all the fruit to various groups. The majority of the fruit goes to Second Harvest of South Georgia https:\/\/feedingsga.org\/<\/a>. Each year we pick thousands of pounds of fruit and take to Second Harvest. This year the satsumas from the pruning trial were very slow to turn orange but they were still glad to get the fruit. (Figure 1)<\/strong> This works out well because there is always a demand for food around Thanksgiving. In January we were able to deliver a couple thousand pounds of Tangos to Second Harvest for the first time (Figure 2)<\/strong>. In addition to Second Harvest we take fruit to Sam\u2019s BBQ. Sam annually prepares meals for the community for Thanksgiving and has become a distributor of fruit. The people are glad to get the fresh fruit as you can see in the photo below (Figure 3).<\/strong> Follow the link to read more about the Thanksgiving meals prepared by Sam\u2019s BBQ https:\/\/www.walb.com\/2023\/11\/23\/giving-back-thanksgiving-sams-barbecue-feeds-valdosta-community\/<\/a>. We also donate fruit to Lowndes Associated Ministries to People (LAMP) here in Valdosta (Figure 4).<\/strong> LAMP provides meals and shelter for the homeless and serves 8 counties in the surrounding area https:\/\/www.lampinc.org\/<\/a>. We also give fruit to the J.L. Lomax Elementary School lunchroom (Fig.5)<\/strong> where they serve fruit to the kids. We also make sure the faculty and staff at Lomax have plenty of citrus as they are gracious enough to let us have the citrus plot at their school. We also deliver plenty of fruit to county supporters.  We cannot pick all the fruit without a top-notch picking crew (Fig. 6)<\/strong>.  Without them, we could not donate fruit and obtain yield data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Figure 1. <\/strong>Jacob Kalina unloads satsumas into boxes at Second Harvest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Figure 2. <\/strong>Second Harvest receives their first load of Tango\u2019s this January.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Figure 3. <\/strong>Community members at Sam\u2019s BBQ show their approval of the Tango\u2019s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Figure 4. <\/strong>Workers at LAMP unload Tango fruit to get ready to serve to the homeless.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Figure 5. <\/strong>Members of the lunchroom staff at J.L. Lomax Elementary School load Tango\u2019s into coolers.  This lunchroom crew has great posing skills and are always happy to get fruit.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Figure 6. <\/strong>Many extension agents and volunteers help harvest fruit.  Pictured in the crew from left to right is Josh Dawson, Doug Collins, Sydni Ingram, Holly Anderson, Sarah Curry, Mary Sutton, Jacob Kalina, and Ben Reeves. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jake Price, Mary Sutton, Doug Collins, Jacob Kalina, Josh Dawson, Holly Anderson, Michasia Dowdy, Sara Curry, Ben Reeves, Tucker Price, Sydni Ingram, and Justin Shealey: What do you do with all the fruit at the Citrus Research Plot? This is a common question I get from people about the citrus research plot in Valdosta. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}