This is a closed-event. Volunteers from Liberty Mutual are helping to mulch and create companion plant guilds around the new trees at the High Point Orchard! For more information about companion planting around fruit trees, please contact [email protected].
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.
Join City Fruit and the McAuliffe Park Team for a harvest and orchard clean-up event! We will be taking a pest-prevention net off of one of the apple trees, harvesting remaining apples, and picking up windfall apples off the orchard floor to mitigate against insect and rodent pests. High quality, pest-free apples will be sharedContinue reading "Harvest and orchard clean-up at McAuliffe Park"
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!"
Join us for a winter pruning workparty in partnership with the Friends of Piper's Orchard! Winter pruning helps invigorate new healthy growth in the spring and supports fruit production in the summer! Volunteer sign-up link: https://timecounts.org/city-fruit/events/48293 Photos from event!:
The City Fruit office observes MLK Day as a day of service. We are open to partnering with local groups for service projects in the orchards! Please email [email protected] for any inquiries.
Join us for a winter pruning workparty at Kirke Park P-Patch! Winter pruning helps invigorate new healthy growth in the spring and supports fruit production in the summer! Volunteer sign-up link: https://timecounts.org/city-fruit/events/48295 Photos from event!:
Join us for a winter pruning workparty in partnership with the Friends of Piper's Orchard! Winter pruning helps invigorate new healthy growth in the spring and supports fruit production in the summer! Please make sure to bring your mask and we will supply the necessary tools all sanitized and ready to go! And like always,Continue reading "Piper’s Orchard Winter Pruning"
This is a closed event, organized in honor of Tu'BShevat for a local synagogue climate action group! If you are a community group interested in participating in an orchard workparty with us, let us know! We'd love to hear from you - please send all inquires to [email protected].
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"
City Fruit and the Troll's Knoll P-Patchers are planting a new orchard! We started the orchard planning process in late 2022, and with the help of volunteers from Salesforce have cleared the planting area of debris and sheet-mulched the ground to prepare the soil! Our next step in the process is to level the soilContinue reading "Troll’s Knoll P-Patch Berm Packing"