Harvesting Fruit from Neighborhood Trees in Stockton, Lodi, Manteca, Linden and Tracy
As of May of 2025, we have picked and donated over 53,350 pounds of fresh, delicious and nutritious fruit to those in need.
Guerilla Gardening
in April of 2025 we started our first guerilla gardening project. We identified 5 acres owned by the city of Stockton since the 1980's that was ear marked for a library. We seed bombed it with 7,000 seeds of edible flowers and pollinator flowers.
Food Forrest
We have dozens of different varieties of fruit trees, vines and shrubs ready to put into an educational food forrest for the community once a location has been secured.
What We’re Doing
Harvester Farms
Founded: 2015
Founder: Elzo Williams
Areas of expertise:
Harvesting Fruit to address hunger and food insecurity
Company Profile
In San Joaquin County 1 in 4 children live in a food insecure home. roughly 500 cars from predominantly middle-class families are lined up at the food bank every day trying to feed their families
Hunger doesn’t follow a season. It is unfortunately a persistent problem — and with fruit growing year-round in California’s Central Valley, our ongoing harvest efforts are essential. That’s why we’re committed to picking fruit year-round and ensuring it doesn’t go to waste. If you have extra fruit in your yard, don’t let it rot — let it help.
We’ll harvest it at no cost to you and deliver it to trusted local organizations like the Emergency Food Bank, St. Mary’s Dining Hall, or others that directly serve those in need.
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