OFRE: Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton

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OFRE: Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton Helping to get locally grown fruit in the hands, mouths, and minds of Edmonton's citizen's! OFRE began in 2009, and is run by dedicated volunteers.

OFRE strives to educate people about local fruit to make sure less goes to waste. For ten years, we were Edmonton’s backyard fruit rescue go-to. But it out grew us! Volunteer backyard fruit rescue is now coordinated by Leftovers Foundation, through their Home Harvest project! OFRE maintains a small orchard in the heart of Edmonton, on the former school field at the Multicultural Health Broker building (95 st and 107A Ave). We also offer education opportunities around fruit growing and use. OFRE raises awareness about food security, and builds community by bringing people together around an amazing resource: local fruit!

Our October 15 sauerkraut workshop is two for one, and the free seat belongs to somebody who has never joined an OFRE cl...
10/06/2026

Our October 15 sauerkraut workshop is two for one, and the free seat belongs to somebody who has never joined an OFRE class.

Here is why anyone bothered making this stuff in the first place. Long sea voyages used to kill men by the dozen, not by drowning but by scurvy, and captains worked out that a barrel of fermented cabbage kept a crew alive through months with nothing fresh aboard.

That is what fermentation was for. Not flavour. Winter, and the long stretch when nothing is growing.

Edmonton has that stretch too. A jar of cabbage that keeps for a season is the same answer to the same problem, scaled down to a fridge shelf.

Cindy Suelzle teaches the method on October 15.

Buy one ticket and bring a friend for FREE.

Register here: https://operationfruitrescue.org/events/sauerkraut-making-workshop/

One ticket brings two people to our sauerkraut workshop. All we ask is that the second person has never been to an OFRE ...
10/03/2026

One ticket brings two people to our sauerkraut workshop. All we ask is that the second person has never been to an OFRE class before.

Salt and cabbage.

That is the whole ingredient list, and it is the easiest preservation skill there is to start with. No canner, no pressure gauge, nothing you do not already own.

Cindy Suelzle takes a room of beginners from the first cut to a finished jar. Why fermenting is not pickling. How much salt, and why the salt is what does the work. How to keep everything under the brine, which is where nearly every failed batch goes wrong.

Why are we offering a BOGO for this workshop?

We just want to meet people who have never come to one of our events, and most of us only learned this stuff because somebody brought us along the first time.

👉 Thursday October 15, 7 to 8.30pm.

Registration is in the first comment.

09/19/2026

Grapes rescued from Edmonton homeowners being turned into delicious c***r

09/19/2026

Edmonton Magpie Morris Dancers at our C***r Festival

09/19/2026

OFRE Apple C***r Celebration under way at the Millhurst Community Leage Sakaw Gardens.

Come join us from 11 through 4pm today

09/19/2026
09/19/2026

Spend the day pressing apples at the Millhurst Community League Sakaw Gardens, 5820 11A ave from 11am to 4pm. Help run the pedal powered Apple Annihilator and press the mash into c***r.

Reminder: we can accept fruit donations until 2:00pm.

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9538 107 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T5H0T7

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