Mayor Adams plants fruit trees in Sabin
Rosemarie Cordello, left, with Mayor Sam Adams and Katy Kolker planting a fruit tree last weekend in the Sabin Neighborhood. (Sabin Community Association)
Seven new fruit trees were planted Saturday at the Sabin Neighborhood’s new community orchard.
Mayor Sam Adams, along with Commissioner Amanda Fritz, joined the Portland Fruit Tree Project and other volunteers to plant the fruit trees: pear; asian pear; apple; persimmon; fig; plum; and cherry.
Supported by a grant from the city of Portland’s Neighborhood Small Grants Program, the Sabin Community Orchard is located on Portland Bureau of Transportation land, at Northeast Mason St. between 18th and 19th.
Of course, Mayor Adams, like all area residents, has an open invitation to any Friends of Trees planting. Here is the online planting schedule. Friends of Trees and its Neighborhood Trees program will plant in the Sabin community on March 13.
–Toshio Suzuki
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