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This Weekend: Good Plants, Bad Plants, Phamarcants

Post author:barbbsea
Post published:June 12, 2015
Post category:Ecology Gardening Kids Nature Parks Schools Science Trees Urban agriculture Volunteer Wallingford, Seattle

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…

Tree ambassadors get to do cool things like this at their annual picnic.

Urban Nature Lovers Needed

Post author:Kimberly
Post published:March 12, 2015
Post category:Ecology Nature Trees Volunteer Walkability Wallingford, Seattle

Have you ever walked past an overgrown, untended plot of the urban landscape and thought to yourself how much better that little bit of green space would be with some love and attention? You are not alone! In fact, Seattle is filled with noticers, and some of them have noticed that Wallingford has a few places that could use some love - like the neglected areas at 46th and Midvale, 45th and Midvale and Aurora at 46th. These lovely noticers have…

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

Post author:barbbsea
Post published:November 23, 2014
Post category:Lake Union Parks Trees Urban agriculture Volunteer Wallingford, Seattle

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…

Check out the Burke-Gilman Trail Orchard this Sunday

Post author:barbbsea
Post published:July 19, 2014
Post category:Food Nature Parks Trees Urban agriculture Volunteer Wallingford, Seattle

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…

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

Post author:barbbsea
Post published:July 10, 2014
Post category:Charity Food Gardening Nature Parks Trees Urban agriculture Volunteer Wallingford, Seattle

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…

Got fruit trees? Call City Fruit!

Post author:barbbsea
Post published:June 28, 2014
Post category:Food Gardening Trees Urban agriculture Volunteer Wallingford, Seattle

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…

Meridian Playground Apple Trees Need Your Love

Post author:barbbsea
Post published:May 30, 2014
Post category:Food Gardening Trees Urban agriculture Volunteer Wallingford, Seattle

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…

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