Join us for a harvest of crabapples at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute! This cluster of crabapple trees are highly productive, and the fruit will be used in the creation of jams and baked goods to be shared with the community! Please make sure to bring your mask and we will supply the necessary toolsContinue reading "Crabapple Harvest at Langston Hughes"
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Join us for a harvest of apples at Linden Park Orchard, a small residential park that is home to a row of highly productive apple trees and a colorful and vibrant P-patch garden. Please make sure to bring your mask and we will supply the necessary tools all sanitized and ready to go! And likeContinue reading "Apple harvest at Linden Park Orchard"
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Join us for a summer pruning workparty in partnership with the team at City Soil Farms in Renton! Summer pruning is great for shaping and reducing the size of a tree, identifying and removing deadwood, and thinning trees which are crowded and/or overproducing. Come refresh on fruit tree pruning basics with us! Please view thisContinue reading "Summer pruning workparty at City Soil Farms"
With the harvest season in full swing, City Fruit has an abundance of fruit! Currently, many of our partner food banks are at their capacity for accepting certain fruit donations, so we are looking for alternative ways to store and utilize the fruit! This volunteer session would involve de-pitting and halving fruit so that theyContinue reading "Processing excess fruit at City Fruit office"
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 Racetrack apple harvest"
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 Racetrack apple harvest"
For more information and to sign-up for this volunteer event, please visit: https://timecounts.org/city-fruit/events/38505
For more information and to sign-up for this volunteer event, please visit: https://timecounts.org/city-fruit/events/38506
For more information and to sign-up for this volunteer event, please visit: https://timecounts.org/city-fruit/events/38507
City Fruit is excited to be continuing our partnership with Salesforce for another Education & Team-building session! This session we'll be using apples harvested from Longacres Orchard to bake apple pies that could be donated to our partnering organizations' Thanksgiving dinner programs. For other corporate groups interested in partnering with us, please view our EducationContinue reading "Salesforce apple pie baking education & team-building event"