Tool Share

Tool Share

Borrow food processing equipment for free!

We offer a shed full of equipment in both Kimberley and Cranbrook. They are filled with juicers and grinders, dehydrators, sauce-making kits, and apple peelers/slicers/corers, plus regular ladders, tall orchard ladders, special fruit-picking bags, extensions and hand pickers. We also have pruning equipment to keep your trees in good shape including pole pruners, saws, hand saws, and loppers.

Reserve tools

Steps for using the Tool Share site:

1. Create a new account or log in to an existing account.
2. Select your community (at the top, center of the page).
3. Select your equipment (the coloured labels down the left side of the grid).
4. Create your reservation. And check your spam for the notification email.
5. Pick up the equipment at the time you reserved it for.
6. Use the equipment!
7. Ensure the equipment is well cleaned—especially the grinder!
8. Return the equipment by the time you have noted.

Equipment manuals:

• Apple Grinder Instructions
• Apple Press Instructions
• Excalibur Dehydrator Instructions

Please note:

• The reservation system is an honour system. The check in/out times are not enforced, so please be sure you are respecting the reservation following yours.
• Make sure you return all of the equipment pieces and check under the seat of your car if a bin tips over!
• It is common for tool share notifications to end up in your spam folder. Please check if you don’t receive an email.
• If you are pressing apples, the pressing leftovers can be used for animal feed. Get in touch with us to find out how. Please don’t dump them at the Community Garden compost bins… the bears LOVE them!

For more information, please contact Ashley Lortscher: kimcranapples@wildsight.ca. 

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