Y-WE Youth Farmstand and Cider Press
More information on this event soon!
More information on this event soon!
Seattle is one of the few major urban cities in the United States that still has an extensive network of orchards. With City Fruit’s Urban Fruit Guardians program, we bring students to explore this unique resource through environmental science lessons and art projects. Join for a single session or come to the whole series! Our Urban FruitContinue reading "Urban Fruit Guardians: Harvest & Cider Press"
As part of Cornish College Gives Back program, 15 students will be learning fruit tree pruning at Linden Orchard Park! This is a closed event. Please email Tiare at [email protected] for volunteer or education opportunities for youth groups.
This is a closed event. A group of youth from Eton Elementary and two local girl scout troops will be working with City Fruit to harvest and clean-up apples at Longacres Orchard! Interested in having your group out for a team-building and education event? Please email Tiare at [email protected] for volunteer or education opportunities forContinue reading "Longacres Harvest with Eton Elementary and girl scout troops!"
Join us for an apple harvest at Longacres Racetrack -- the site of a historic horse racetrack in Renton! The property is home to around 120 apple trees, many at least 30 years old and used historically to feed some of the resident racetrack horses! If pest free, the apples harvested from the property willContinue reading "Longacres apple harvest and cider press with community volunteers & a boyscout troop!"
Partnering with Holy Cross Orchard, City Fruit will be hosting a group of 13 students and 2 adult chaperones for a service learning event! Using curricula from our Urban Fruit Guardians program, students will learn about soil health and soil sampling, in addition to helping care for the orchard trees by spreading mulch. For moreContinue reading "Billings Middle School Service Project Day – Soil health sampling and mulching"
In support of a UCLA Alternative Break program, City Fruit will be presenting on Seattle food systems and the importance of expanding our urban fruit canopy through orchard plantings. If you are interested in having City Fruit speak to your group of students or team, please contact Tiare at [email protected].
In support of a environmental policy and community-based research methods class at the University of Puget Sound, City Fruit presented on Seattle food systems and our goals to expand the number and diversity of public access fruit trees in the city. If you would like City Fruit to speak to your students or team aboutContinue reading "Presentation on food systems to class at UPS"
City Fruit will be visiting the Atlantic Street Family Center to do an afterschool program lesson and craft activity on pollination and pollinator support! To learn more about our K-5 urban fruit guardian program and to get in contact with us, please visit our website or email Riley at [email protected]!
City Fruit will be hosting a winter pruning volunteer event at Linden Orchard Park in support of a group from the youth-serving organization Community for Youth! This event is closed to the public. Please reach out to Tiare at [email protected] if you work with a youth group and would like to schedule a service learningContinue reading "Community for Youth winter pruning event"
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.
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"