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Harvesting More Than Fruit: Fighting Food Waste and Strengthening Communities Through City Fruit An Overview of my Internship From Harvesting to Giving Hello everyone, this is Clover’s blog post, andContinue reading “City Fruit Intern Clover Lang Shares Her Experience!”

Question: How do you start the day?  Answer: Coffee.   Is this true for you?  It’s true for me.  And yet, very few of us call coffee by the correctContinue reading “What the Fruit: Coffee is Not a Bean”

What brought you to City Fruit?  How long have you worked for the organization?   I was a UW Capstone intern for City Fruit during the winter of 2022! ItContinue reading “Here to Harvest: Meet Riley, our Program Coordinator!”

What brought you to City Fruit?  How long have you worked for the organization?    I returned to the US after working with agroforestry systems as a Peace Corps volunteerContinue reading “Julian, Our Tree Care Specialist”

What brought you to City Fruit?  How long have you worked for the organization?   I joined City Fruit in April 2021 as an AmeriCorps VISTA Fundraising & Development Specialist.Continue reading “From VISTA to Staff: Meet our Development Manager”

What brought you to City Fruit?  How long have you worked for the organization?   I joined City Fruit in September 2020, first as a graduate student intern through AntiochContinue reading “Cheers to Four Years: Meet Tiare, City Fruit’s Education and Volunteer Programs Manager!”

What drew you to City Fruit? I had followed City Fruit’s programming ever since I began doing local food systems work. I really love how their programming taps into theContinue reading “Celebrating AmeriCorps Week: Meet our VISTAs”

City Fruit is a seasonally affected organization.  Hopefully this doesn’t come as a surprise!  The majority of our purpose and mission, harvesting, depends heavily on climate.  Unripe fruit serves littleContinue reading “Our Friend ENSO”

Most of what we would refer to as “storing” or “keeping” produce are vegetables: roots, including rhizomes and tubers (did you read this blog post?) and alliums (garlic, onions, andContinue reading “Storing Fruits”

H41659 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 16023. This week you might be eating some pumpkin.  A reminder from City Fruit: pumpkin is botanically a fruit!  Let aContinue reading “Seasonal Fruit: Pumpkin”