City Fruit is hosting a winter pruning demonstration for families at Eckstein Middle School! We'll be working with the trees located at the school's courtyard garden and teaching basic pruning principles.
City Fruit will be supporting a volunteer group organized by Dr. Jose Rizal Orchard steward, Craig Thompson. We'll be doing some winter fruit tree pruning to remove dead wood and keep the trees healthy! If you would like to join park stewardship events at Dr. Jose Rizal Park & Orchard, please contact Tiare at [email protected]Continue reading "Winter pruning at Dr. Jose Rizal"
New fruit trees are in! Join us for a mulching and companion planting event at Troll's Knoll Orchard! In order to ensure these new trees are supported and grow healthy fruit down the line, we will be adding mulch and accompanying companion plants to the space for optimal growth support. We will supply the necessaryContinue reading "Mulching and companion planting at Troll’s Knoll Orchard"
Thinning your fruitlets is a critical springtime tree care task to encourage the production of larger, high-quality fruit and to reduce the risk of branches breaking on older trees from the weight. Netting and/or bagging a branch of your tree or the entirety of the tree can help mitigate against winter codling moth and appleContinue reading "Lincoln High School Climate Justice Group volunteer fruitlet thinning, bagging, and netting at the Good Shepherd Center"
Thinning your fruitlets is a critical springtime tree care task to encourage the production of larger, high-quality fruit and to reduce the risk of branches breaking on older trees from the weight. Netting and/or bagging a branch of your tree or the entirety of the tree can help mitigate against winter codling moth and appleContinue reading "Piper’s Orchard Fruitlet Thinning & Netting Workparty"
Join us for a fruit thinning and tree netting workparty at our new partner site, Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden! In order to help the trees to produce a good harvest, we will be thinning the fruitlets and using bee netting to protect them from coddling moth. Please come prepared for rain or shine--dressed in closedContinue reading "Fruitlet thinning and tree netting at Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden"
Join for a summer pruning workparty at McAuliffe Park & Orchard! Volunteer sign-up: https://timecounts.org/city-fruit/events/48302
A group of volunteers from Google will be supporting City Fruit and the P-Patchers at Troll's Knoll with some much needed weeding at the new orchard! This is a closed to the public event. For more information about our Group Education & Teambuilding events, please check out our website: https://www.cityfruit.org/organize-a-team-building-event/
Join us for a transparent apple harvest at McAuliffe Park & Orchard! Volunteer sign-up: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/UvxbX4HPv09okL34mtqGgw
Join us for a Transparent apple harvest at Holy Cross Orchard! Transparent apples are an early varietal of apple that originates from Latvia in the 1850s. In notes shared from Holy Cross orchard steward, Micki Larimer, the White Transparent apple (also known by the name ‘Papirovka’) is famous for making especially creamy and flavorful applesauce. Continue reading "Holy Cross Transparent Apple Harvest"
Linden Park Orchard is a small neighborhood orchard that shares the space with a community p-patch garden. Join us for an apple harvest and meet some of the garden's p-patchers! Volunteer sign-up link: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/DFpqUXyCEJjJsKqRuRhCFQ
What better way to celebrate upcoming National Apple Day then to harvest apples! A team from Unico Properties will be joining City Fruit for an apple harvest at Longacres Racetrack Orchard in Renton. Longacres is home to around 120 apple trees, with much of the fruit accessible from the ground! This particular event is closedContinue reading "Longacres Racetrack Orchard Harvest with Unico Properties!"