Volunteer efforts bear fruit: Village Harvest picks backyard produce to feed community

ON A SUNNY Saturday morning, a team of 10 volunteers unloads ladders, clippers, buckets, and long-handled fruit pickers with metal fingers on the street in front of an upscale home in the Santa Clara County city of Los Altos.

Their mission, according to Village Harvest executive director Craig Diserens, is to harvest two fruit trees in the side yard. One tree contains Valencia oranges and the other is full of Eureka lemons.