Tag: persimmon
How rock band Cake plants a tree
The rock band Cake is currently on its national summer tour, playing such hits as ‘Never There’ and ‘Satan is my Motor,’ all the while giving trees to lucky audience members.
The popular band has been doing this for several years, according to front-man John McCrea at a concert in 2008, “Just because I think trees are pretty great.”
As the video below will show, the distribution process is not so structured.
Sometimes contestants are asked to have a dance-off, or in the video below, an informal tree quiz is administered.
Either way, all tree winners are responsible to plant the tree in a good home and submit pictures to their tree winner database.
If you missed other editions in the ‘How (so & so) plant a tree” series: How James Cameron plants a tree; How Katie Couric plants a tree; How a Palestinian prime minister plants a tree; How Disney stars plant trees; How an American gangster plants a tree; How Hollywood stars plant a tree; How President Obama plants a tree; How a prince plants a tree; and How an engineer plants a tree.
–Toshio Suzuki
Mayor Adams plants fruit trees in Sabin
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
Neighborhood Trees Crew Leader Training in Sellwood – Westmoreland and Brooklyn
By Whitney Dorer
Each year, the Neighborhood Trees program starts the planting season off with a training for new crew leaders coupled with a planting in the neighborhoods of Sellwood-Westmoreland and Brooklyn. Last Saturday, it was a full house with over 50 volunteers learning what it means to be a crew leader. These individuals will teach homeowners and other volunteers how to plant trees, talk about the urban forest, all while building community in our neighborhoods.
The morning was filled with presentations from staff and partners such as the City of Portland’s Grey to Green Initiative, Bureau of Environmental Services, and long term volunteers. Volunteers filled up on soup and topped off their cups of coffee before heading out to plant 121 street and yard trees.
Among the large array of trees were the Cascara, Grace Smoketree, Magnolia ‘ Butterflies’ and the Fuyu Japanese Persimmon. Each tree is now happily planted and tagged – so take a trip down to Sellwood – Westmoreland and Brooklyn and check them out!
Whitney is the Neighborhood Trees Manager and can be reached at [email protected] or 503-282-8846 ext. 21.