Two items from Aviva at Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle: First, she says, “It really has been an off year for the fruit trees here in West Seattle. We have only harvested about 300 pounds of fruit and it seems that none of the Italian Plums have fruit. We could use … Asian pears, pears, and apples.” Contact info’s at gleanit.org if you have tree fruit to donate – you donate, they pick! Second – the new Community Orchard at South Seattle Community College, funded by a city grant, is getting off the ground with the Design Group’s first meeting ahead, and Aviva says, “We’d love to get (more of the) community involved in this cool new project.” Read on to see how you can be part of it!
Aviva’s orchard update:
As you may have heard, the Community Orchard of West Seattle (COWS) is a GO! We have received funding from the Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods and it is time to start the planning.
Fruit trees take a while to mature, but in the meantime we will be holding classes, preparing the land, and very importantly: creating our orchard community. Would you like to be part of this Orchard Community? There will be many ways to be involved. Some of the most fun work will be done by the planting design workgroup. We are scheduling a first meeting for that group. If you are interested click on this link for the Doodle poll and let us know your availability. If none of these times work, please feel free to suggest a couple more within the next several weeks. We will be scheduling more times to get together and come up with a community vision for the orchard.
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