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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.

Move-A-Tree, Plant-A-Tree in Wallingford

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In 2014, City Fruit harvested over 28,000 pounds of fresh, organic fruit from residential and public trees in Seattle. Of that total, nearly 5,000 pounds came from Wallingford fruit trees. This was the first year City Fruit has harvested in Wallingford. The fruit was donated to food banks, meal programs, and homeless shelters, including FamilyWorks Food Bank, the University District Food Bank, and the Wallingford Community Senior Center.

From March through October 2014, over 250 volunteers with City Fruit’s orchard steward program spent 530 hours taking care of fruit trees at Meridian Playground and the Burke-Gilman Trail.

The harvest season …

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City Fruit Ambassador for Wallingford – Apply Now

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The City Fruit Ambassador Program, a year-long training program for uber volunteers to be the face and voice of in one of the neighborhoods where City Fruit works most, was just launched this August! It’s been an exciting time developing the program, recruiting, and training new Ambassadors.

From foodies to writers to food justice folks, there’s an incredibly diverse pool of Ambassadors, and City Fruit couldn’t be more excited to support and assist them in the work and projects they choose to tackle this year. No need to get your hands dirty if that’s not your style – we look …

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Help Save the Meridian Playground Apple Trees

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If you’ve been at Meridian Playground recently, you may have noticed broken branches in the apple trees and even more apples on the ground than usual. In fact, three weeks ago one tree twisted apart and collapsed completely under the weight of a record-breaking crop of apples. Its neighbor is in real danger of splitting in half.

These fruit trees were planted soon after the Good Shepherd Center was built in 1905 so are too weak to bear the stress of thousands of pounds of apples. A group of volunteers thinned and bagged many of the apples last May but …

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Check out the Burke-Gilman Trail Orchard this Sunday

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The neighborhood fruit trees are having a great year so far. They’ve produced bumper crops of cherries, yellow transparent apples, and are now into plums.

Did you know there are 40 fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Northlake Place, west of Gas Works? Come and see a group of them on Sunday.

City Fruit, a local non-profit which harvests fruit from private trees throughout the city, also takes care of fruit trees in 11 public Seattle parks, two of which are in Wallingford: Meridian Playground and this southerly section of the Burke-Gilman Trail.

On Sunday, …

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Do Good in the ‘Hood – Become a City Fruit Ambassador

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City Fruit, a Seattle nonprofit that harvests local fruit from private and public fruit trees, is now in Wallingford – and offers a new, creative way to get involved with our mission.

The City Fruit Ambassador Program is a year long opportunity to use your skills, passions, and contacts to be the voice and face of City Fruit in Wallingford.

For example, say you really want to help with the volunteer fruit harvests in your neighborhood. Besides just helping pick the fruit or delivering it to local food banks, you can be a City Fruit Ambassador and lead a monthly …

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Got fruit trees? Call City Fruit!

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Barb is posting this for her City Fruit coworker.

Hey, Wallyhood! My name is Luke Jesperson and I am a rather new resident of the good neighborhood of Wallingford. I am also the Harvest Coordinator for City Fruit, a Seattle non-profit which harvests surplus fruit from neighborhood trees and donates it to nearby food banks, meal programs, and shelters.

Over the course of the past five years, City Fruit has harvested and donated over 55,000 pounds of fruit that otherwise would have been wasted. City Fruit was founded in 2009 in the Mount Baker neighborhood, expanded to the rest …

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Meridian Playground Apple Trees Need Your Love

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Did you know there are 30 apple trees at Meridian Playground? Most of them are from the historic Good Shepherd Center orchard.

Ever notice what a mess there is when those apples fall on the ground in the fall? Ever wonder why no one picked the apples? Do you want to help those trees grow apples you would actually want to bite into?

Come to the Meridian Playground orchard this Sunday, June 1, starting at noon, and help bring those trees back to productive health. Employees of City Fruit, a Seattle non-profit that harvests surplus fruit from private and public …

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