Gleaning, simplified
A platform for groups that pick and share food in their community.
Let us take on the paperwork and the people-wrangling, so you can get back to what matters most - putting good food to good use.
Try it out
A platform for groups that pick and share food in their community.
Let us take on the paperwork and the people-wrangling, so you can get back to what matters most - putting good food to good use.
Try it outSave staff time. No more spreadsheets, sticky notes, or past email scavenger hunts - everything you need lives in one place.
Registrations, waitlist management, confirmations, reminders, and thank-you notes go out automatically.
See pounds rescued, volunteer hours, and distribution data at a glance, perfect for grants and reports.
Born from years of running harvest events and rescuing food, we know the chaos and built tools to calm it.
Registration for volunteers, harvest and donation locations
Adjust our intuitive forms to capture what you need, and make registration and engagement a snap.
Create events, send invites, and manage the harvest
Track impact and key stats, access all data anytime
Make adjustments behind the scenes
Community organizer and systems thinker, Katrina brings her passion for making harvest rescue sustainable—and efficient.
Katrina spent a decade at the intersection of spreadsheets and apple trees - training teams, building systems, and solving problems before they could ripen. As co-founder of Hidden Harvest Ottawa, she brings a long-game mindset to community harvest work: start with what's sustainable and don't shy away from tough questions. She brings heart, hustle, and a love of efficiency to the roots of common fruit.
Tech creator and problem engineer, Tony built common fruit to make gleaning smoother, smarter, and scalable.
Tony took one look at the tangle of apps, emails, and spreadsheets behind the scenes and thought, "I can fix that." With three decades in tech and years of harvest volunteering, he is fluent in code and fruit - a rare mix. He thrives on listening closely, untangling challenges, and crafting simple, powerful tools that help gleaning groups do more, with less hassle. Tony built common fruit from scratch - now it's bearing fruit and branching out.
Ready to explore how common fruit could help your group?
Book a meetingWe price on a sliding scale based on your organization - we work hard to stay affordable for smaller groups with limited budgets. Pricing is influenced by the number of events, staff, and volunteers you coordinate. Most organizations invest about 3% of their annual budget in our platform.
For newer or volunteer-run programs
For organizations with part-time staff or a growing number of harvests
For well-established programs coordinating many trees, volunteers, and harvests
Not at all. Any group that coordinates volunteers to rescue surplus produce can benefit, rural or urban. The platform can be adjusted to your operations - we currently support groups picking in backyards, gleaning in fields, and rescuing market hauls.
Nope. If you can use email and spreadsheets, you can use common fruit. We offer onboarding support, and customization according to your organization's operations, terminology, and brand identity.
Absolutely. This is an important step in the onboarding process. Our team will help import your information from past harvests, details about volunteers and donation locations, so you can hit the ground running.
common fruit officially launched in 2024, but its roots reach back to 2018, when we began supporting fruit rescue efforts in Ottawa. Today, our growing community includes organizations in Washington State, Ontario, and Québec.
Definitely! We'd be happy to chat. Book a time with us to connect, or email [email protected] to get started.