By Erica Timm Did you miss your Friends of Trees neighborhood planting date? Are you still interested in planting a street or yard tree this season? Have you thought about planting fruit trees to complete your edible landscape? If so, be sure to mark your calendar for the upcoming Friends of Trees Fruit Tree Giveaway [...]
Tags: Earth Day, fruit trees, yard trees
Whether or not you have fruit trees at your home, you can help two nonprofits in the Portland-Vancouver area that glean fruit from city trees to give to people who don’t have enough fresh food. Several key volunteer leaders at Friends of Trees work with Urban Abundance in Vancouver, WA, a nonprofit whose website says [...]
Tags: fruit trees, Vancouver
If you come to our April 23 Fruit Tree Giveaway and End-of-Season Sale of overstock street and yard trees, you will probably experience the fun and satisfaction of planting a tree yourself. The giveaway and sale begin at 10 a.m. at Friends of Trees, 3117 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Garden designer and consultant [...]
Tags: fruit trees, street trees, yard trees
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 [...]
Tags: fruit trees, local food, nut trees, urban gleaning, Vancouver
