Do you have a fruit or nut tree and want to share the bounty with Vancouver’s emergency food system? Would you like to harvest neighborhood fruit to donate to local food pantries?
Each year in yards across Vancouver, thousands of pounds of fruit and nuts fall to the ground, going to waste and presenting a clean-up problem. At [...]
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Become a Harvest Leader!
Do you enjoy leading groups of people in fun, meaningful activities? Are you interested in leading harvesting parties this summer? Become a Portland Fruit Tree Project Harvest Leader!
Harvesting Parties bring people together to pick fruit that might otherwise go to waste, and make it available to people in need. Harvest Leaders co-lead [...]
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What to do with 30,000 Apple Trees that bud in the first week of April?
This is the issue facing many growers in the Northeast after an unprecedented hot streak hit the area in early April, reports The Associated Press.
An excerpt from the story:
“We’re just praying that we don’t get some really, really cold weather [...]
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By Greg Tudor
Interested in your food security? Want to add a lovely tree to your yard? Consider picking up a fruit tree from Friends of Trees.
Thanks to generous donations from several nurseries in the Willamette Valley, we are able to offer a great variety of apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes and more for a fraction [...]
Tags: fruit trees, yard trees
The Portland Fruit Tree Project’s workshop series continues with a tree selection and planting class March 27.
The hands-on workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will teach one how to create optimal fruit producing conditions.
Participants will also learn basic steps needed for young tree care.
Pre-registration is required.
The workshop is free for participants with [...]
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These tree tips, specific for the months of March and April, come courtesy of Collier Arbor Care, a Friends of Trees sponsor:
Evaluate trees and prune, removing dead wood and maintaining structure
Treat early blooming flowering and fruit trees, like peaches, plums, and cherries for disease problems
Treat for leaf blight diseases on dogwood, sycamore and flowering trees
Treat [...]
Tags: cherry, education, flowering, fruit trees, peach, plum, tips
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 [...]
Tags: apple, cherry, fig, fruit trees, Mayor Adams, pear, persimmon, planting, plum
Feature story and video yesterday in The New York Times about a parks project that is training the next generation of “green-collar” jobs:
In New York, a city where tree climbing in public parks is officially considered disorderly conduct, the art of hauling yourself skyward, branch by branch, may be endangered for children and adults alike. [...]
Tags: canopy, fruit trees, pruning
Portland Nursery has several fruit tree weekend courses coming up this month.
An intro to fruit trees is offered at both their Southeast Portland locations, and a fruit tree pruning class is offered at their store on Division.
Intro to fruit trees info: Feb. 13, 1 p.m., 5050 SE Stark; and Feb. 20, 10 a.m., 9000 SE Division.
Fruit [...]
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Vancouver Urban Forestry has several upcoming events, including two Neighborhood Trees plantings with Friends of Trees, Feb. 27 and March 20.
This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. is a workshop entitled Fruit Tree Pruning & Care. This hands-on class will teach basic pruning methods in the classroom and in the orchard. Bring a lunch [...]
Tags: education, fruit trees, Vancouver, volunteering
Day 15 on the Hebrew calendar, Jan. 30 this year, is Tu B’shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees.
From Chabad.org:
This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
We mark the day of Tu B’Shvat by eating fruit, particularly from [...]
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The Portland Fruit Tree Project (PFTP) is expanding its winter pruning efforts to a year-round Tree Stewardship Program.
The more tree stewards, the better.
Winter pruning workshops will run this month and next month. Fruit tree selection and planting workshops begin in March, with other seasonal workshops to follow.
For more information on this program or PFTP, contact [...]
Tags: education, fruit trees, PFTP, street trees, yard trees
As part of their fall organic gardening series, Zenger Farm is offering a Sept. 12 workshop on fruit trees.
Instructor Ryan Hofrichter said the small groups will focus on pruning, irrigation and other management strategies for the backyard gardner.
The $20, all-materials-provided class runs 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Zenger Farm is located on city-leased land at 11741 SE [...]
Tags: education, fruit trees, gardening