Sharing Your Backyard Abundance
Fruit Sharing
Sharing your backyard fruit and vegetable abundance is a great way to connect with your community and reduce waste. By sharing them with your neighbors, local food banks, or pantries, not only will you be promoting sustainability, reducing waste, and building relationships, but you'll be helping others within your community to minimize food insecurity.
Fruit Sharing
Have extra fruit or vegetables? We’ll pick them up and deliver to food banks, shelters, and neighbors in need. If you can’t harvest, our volunteers will help so nothing goes to waste. Organizations and neighbors in need can also request fresh produce for delivery.
Our Impact
Discover the positive impact Fruit Sharing has on the community
Collaboration
Together with you and our local farmers, we’ve donated over 25,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to local Bay Area food pantries. Some of these organizations prepare more than 25,000 meals each week for families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities throughout our communities.
Volunteers
We want to thank all the volunteers who we have worked with through Fruit Sharing to impact the lives of those who are experiencing hunger, homelessness, or food insecurity.
Sustainability
By reducing food waste, we are lowering greenhouse gas emissions, saving 15,200 lbs of CO₂ equivalent emissions. This is roughly equivalent to:
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Driving a car for about 17,000 miles
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The energy use of an average household for about 1 year
Our Partners
We’re grateful to work alongside incredible organizations that help us fight hunger and reduce food waste:
Neighbors
West Valley Community Services
St. Luke Lutheran Church
Loaves and Fishes
Pacific Coast Farmers
Young Men's Service League
Recognition
USA Youth Leadership Summit Platinum Pinnacle Award winner
1st place
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This award is given to the student leader with the most innovative and impactful student lead program
Learn about the passionate individuals behind Fruit Sharing
Brandon Pang
(Right)
Co-Founder
Brandon Pang is a senior at Homestead High School in Sunnyvale, California, and a co-driving force behind FruitSharing.com. His passion for Fruit Sharing grew from summers spent harvesting apricots, peaches, lemons, apples, and oranges with his family from their backyard trees and sharing them with his community. For Brandon, the heart of Fruit Sharing is a commitment to share what we have with one another. In addition, Brandon has a passion for engineering-design and global health. In his free time, he enjoys learning about new cultures through travel, street fashion, 3-D designing, and cooking.
Jacob Su
(Left)
Co-Founder
Jacob Su is a senior at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, CA, and the co-leader of FruitSharing.com. The idea for the initiative came to him while walking through his neighborhood, where he noticed many of his neighbors' fruit trees were left unpicked, with fruit rotting on the ground. In addition to his commitment to service, Jacob has a strong interest in the humanities and social sciences. In his free time, he enjoys fashion, learning foreign languages, and engaging in lively conversation over a friendly game of ping pong.