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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper and a ladder as lead volunteer for the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a City Fruit-sponsored group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Fremont. Since 2013 she has worked for City Fruit as the Orchard Steward Coordinator. Her mission is to wrangle and train volunteers to care for fruit trees on public land in Seattle. Barb was Director of Sustainability for the John Stanford International School in 2009-2011 and in 2012-13 was the parent representative on the JSIS Green Team. Barb helped the school attain Level 3 certification as a Washington Green School. She started the Green Team at Hamilton Int'l Middle School in 2014, and they achieved Level 1 Washington Green Schools certification in Waste and Recycling in June 2014.

Friends of Meridian Playground – Let’s Get Official

barbbsea November 1, 2019 4 Comments
Entrance to Meridian Park

Meridian Playground is a unique city park in Seattle, as it is part of the original home of the Good Shepherd 6+ acre property. Meridian Playground shares this property with Historic Seattle (the Good Shepherd Center building and immediately surrounding grounds), Department of Neighborhoods (Good Shepherd P-Patch), and Tilth Alliance (Community Learning and Children’s Gardens).

Add to those groups the many park visitors who enjoy Meridian Playground on a regular basis. We go there for the children’s play area, fruit trees, picnic tables, Farmer’s Market, Tilth Alliance Edible Plant Sales, birthday parties, volleyball, frisbee, and lots more. We are neighbors, …

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City Fruit Orchard Tour Sunday

barbbsea October 4, 2015 Comments are off

On Sunday, October 4, visit Seattle’s historic orchards throughout the city. Each orchard is planning special activities, including cider pressings, historical tours, and more. Your self-guided tour will take you throughout Seattle’s neighborhoods to a hidden orchard, a former homestead, and other beautiful community sites.

Two orchards are in Wallingford: Good Shepherd Center / Meridian Playground and the Burke-Gilman Trail. Look for the pink balloons along the Burke-Gilman between the University Bridge and Northlake Place west of Gasworks. Get your map of the Burke-Gilman fruit trees at our tour table on the Trail between Sunnyside and Corliss.

Both Wallingford orchard …

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This Weekend: Good Plants, Bad Plants, Phamarcants

barbbsea June 12, 2015 Comments are off

If you like to eat, tend or learn about plants, this weekend’s Wallingford activities should be right up your alley!

Invasive Plants Class 10 to 11:30 Saturday: The community gardeners at the Freeway Estates Community Orchard (FECO) invite you to participate in their invasive plants class on Saturday from 10:00- 11:30 am at the Freeway Estates Community Orchard: 6th Ave NE, just north of NE 60th St (on the west side of I-5, next to the sound wall).  This class will be taught by a representative of the King County Noxious Weed Program and will cover:

How to identify invasive…

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Save Seattle’s Apples – even on Mother’s Day

barbbsea May 7, 2015 2 Comments

City Fruit is providing free Pest Prevention Packs to Seattle apple tree owners in Wallingford. What is a Pest Prevention Pack? 25 lightly waxed paper bags, 25 twist ties, and an instruction sheet. As part of their Save Seattle’s Apples campaign, City Fruit wants you to use these organic pest barriers to cover your dime-sized apples this spring so you’ll have worm-free apples next fall.

Covering apples is an easy and effective way to foil insect pests like codling moth and apple maggot without using harmful chemical sprays.

In 2014, City Fruit harvested nearly 28,000 pounds of fresh, edible fruit …

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Release your Inner Frankenstein – Graft a Fruit Tree

barbbsea March 9, 2015 2 Comments

Jonathan Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, would have been right at home in Wallingford. He was a compassionate vegetarian, supremely focused in his 50-year quest to plant apple seeds from Pennsylvania as far west as possible. With Johnny, it was all about the seeds.

The problem with planting apple seeds is that the resulting tree usually produces apples that are nothing like the original. This happens because apples grown from seeds are extreme heterozygotes. These seedling fruits display unpredictable characteristics often only distantly related to their parent DNA. Their genes include variations that combine randomly and create apples that are vastly …

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Fallen Meridian Apple Trees Getting Vertical

barbbsea January 2, 2015 4 Comments

Seattle Parks tree crew and heavy equipment will be at Meridian Playground today uprighting the two heritage apple trees that were blown over during one of our late fall windstorms. The process will take several hours, so come and take a look. The trees are in the north end of the park, close to N. 50th and Meridian.…

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Holiday Lights Recycling

barbbsea December 15, 2014 1 Comment

This holiday season there are several places to take your old holiday lights for recycling. Don’t throw them in the trash – there are valuable metals in the wires which

Here are some of the nearby places where you can take them:

Ace Hardware stores –  Maple Leaf in Seattle and Magnolia (2420 32nd Ave W) stores Girl Scouts of Western Washington / Point Defiance Zoo program: Seattle Administrative Office at
601 Valley Street (just west of Aurora) Lowe’s home improvement stores –  12525 N Aurora Ave,  2700 Rainier Ave S and most other locations McLendon Hardware – all 7…

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