About 1,500 families with the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society will benefit from 9,000 pounds of apples from a Leamington orchard.

Thiessen Apple Orchards is donating the 1,500 bags of the fall fruit.

“We hope that this donation of 9,000 pounds of apples brings some joy to the families that receive them,” said owner Andrew Thiessen.

CAS staff were at the orchard on Monday to receive the gift.