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Got fruit trees? Call City Fruit!

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…

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Read more about the article Meridian Playground Apple Trees Need Your Love

Meridian Playground Apple Trees Need Your Love

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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Treehuggers, Level Up!

One of the great things about living in Seattle is that people here dig trees. There are door-to-door tree volunteers who do things like inventory street trees. Old trees can be designated and protected as heritage trees. The "Lovely Ladies with Loppers" tend unloved fruit trees and restore them to productiveness. The City of Seattle even has an official "ReLeaf" program, established to protect and expand our urban forest. Its admirable goal is to reach 30% tree cover by 2037. There…

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Teach Your Kids to Pitch In

FamilyWorks Food Bank and Resource Center's new volunteer coordinator, Elizabeth Ralston, (a mom of two herself) has frequently heard from other parents about the difficulty of finding volunteer work suitable for children. To fill this need, FamilyWorks has launched a "third Saturday" family volunteering program that connects families with projects that will benefit FamilyWorks customers. Email Elizabeth to join her email list and be alerted to future volunteer opportunities. This month's project is a food drive at the Wallingford QFC on February 15th. Since…

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Click to Earn Recycling Challenge $$ for Non-Profits

In December the competition heated up in the Waste Management Think Green Recycling Challenge.  Our Friday North* volunteers organized a record 11 outreach activities last month, but the Tuesday South route, represented by West Seattle JuNo, matched us with 11 of their own. The Recycling Challenge is a contest sponsored by Waste Management for the 10 Seattle neighborhoods it services with residential waste pickup. Of those 10, the neighborhood route that reduces its garbage per household the most from October 2013…

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Wallingford Greenhouse Seeks New Home

Editor's note: For several years, generous neighbor Cyrus Appel has hosted the Wallingford Greenhouse in his backyard. You can read more about that here. Cyrus is unable to host the greenhouse this year, but the volunteers who run the greenhouse, the gardeners who grow the starts into food for the hungry, and the organizations that receive the food are all hoping that a new home can be located quickly so that this amazing program can continue. Your personal home, your work,…

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Wallingford Wins $2,000 More by Wasting Less

Another month, another $2,000 for non-profits in the neighborhood, thanks to the Waste Management Think Green Recycling Challenge. You and your neighbors took part in eight outreach activities in November which earned the Friday North route* the cash award for completing the most outreach activities in November. You may have heard about the Recycling Challenge at the Wallingford Community Council meeting, at the Meaningful Movies, or at a recycled crafts party at Mosaic. Perhaps you were one of the 200+ folks…

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