Free pie alert!

Free pie is coming to D.C. and no, Oprah is not responsible.

On Wednesday and Saturday, Pie it Forward, a trio of self-proclaimed “weirdo do-gooders,” will be rolling into town with one mission and one mission only: Give away as much free apple pie as possible. “What? Free pie?!” you may be asking yourself excitedly. But then, after a second thought: “I don’t know, nothing comes free. There’s always a catch or something. This seems suspicious.”

If you’re looking for a catch, you won’t find one.

Pie It Forward is exactly what it sounds like: A group of good samaritans traveling the country, distributing free pie in different cities. “We’re giving away pie all over the country to spread pie-ness and generosity,” Sarah Fertig—Pie It Forward’s “Executive Weirdo Do-Gooder”—told DCist, “The pie is a metaphor. The pie represents the hard work and the contributions of millions of people across the country. All I did was assemble the pie, and I don’t think that gives me a right to say it is my pie.”

Fertig and her fellow pie-assemblers, which includes her fiancé Chris, friend Scott, and a Border Collie named Shalosh, have been on the road for six months and have “hit close to 30 states.” They’ll be on the road for two more months before they head back to their hometown in Ann Arbor to try and open up their own donation-based cafe.

So what’s the deal with the pie? And how is this helping people?

Fertig explains that “it started last summer,” when the presidential and congressional elections were heating up. “I was just really getting frustrated with the general spirit of meanness and cynicism, on both sides,” Fertig says. “When I heard Elizabeth Warren’s factory speech, I saw people arguing about it, which I thought was silly because the words just seemed so logical. So I dumbed it down and thought, ‘Well, I’m never going to own a factory, so I’ll go with pie.'”

And then Fertig and her fiancé quit their jobs and made it their mission to make the world just a little bit of a better place, one pie at a time: “We’re leading by example and trying to teach people to be more kind and generous.”

Fertig and the Pie It Forward crew will be handing out pies tomorrow in front of the Chinatown Metro station at 6 p.m. and Saturday during an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington (which is actually on Wednesday), around the Lincoln Memorial.

See? The best things in life truly are free. Also, they’re pie.