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Celebrate the Original Slow Food: Apples

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Show your support for local folks who take the long-term view of food
production.

Thursday (11/3) from 5-8 pm, join City Fruit, Northwest Cider Association, and Northwest Sustainability Collaborative for a night of cider tasting from some of the best hard cider makers in the region. For $20 you get 5 tastes. Get your ticket on-line or at the door at 314 First Ave. S.  Every dollar goes toward helping feed hungry people in our community. To learn more and purchase tickets online:  http://cityfruit.org/cidertaste.htm

And Saturday (11/5), from 10 am to 2 pm, in conjunction with Green Seattle Day, the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards will celebrate their one-year anniversary with a work party. Join them as they free apple trees from blackberry brambles and decades of neglect.

The apple trees are on the Burke-Gilman Trail near 7th Ave. NE, across the footbridge just east of I-5. Lend a gloved hand or simply marvel that these food producers manage to thrive in our urban forest.  Sample a beautiful heritage apple grown on another Burke-Gilman public tree. Last year this Steward group adopted seven apple trees between I-5 and west of Gas Works Park.

The Urban Orchard Stewards program was developed by City Fruit, thanks to support from the Department of Natural Resources, Seattle Parks Department, and the Seattle Office of Sustainability.  http://cityfruit.org/projects/parks.htm

 

 

 

 

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barbbsea

Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.