Press

Video & Audio

• KATU News: Everyday Heroes Harvesting Hope
  
• KPTV: MORE Good Day Oregon Portland Fruit Tree Project
• OPB Radio Doing It Ourselves on Destination: DIY
• Cooking Up a Story Urban Fruit Gleaning 
• Kaiser Permanente Helps Fight Hunger through 'the Persimmon Partnership'

Articles

• Be Portland Non-Profit Harvests Fruit for the Needy by Dave Garlock
  
• The Oregonian With new program in Southeast, the Portland Fruit Tree Project will expand its reach by Stephen Beaven
• Jewish Review Couple seek fruit tree owners in SW for 'no-brainer' mitzvah by Deborah Moon
• NW Senior and Boomer News Harvesting the Fruit of the Land by Maggi White
• Cooking Light Magazine Portland's Food Rules by Liz Crain
• Portland Monthly  Light a Fire: Organizational Awards by Anne Sachse
• The Oregonian Orchard planted in urban greenspace in Northeast Portland by Anne Laufe
  
• OPB News Rethinking the Front Yard: Cities Make Room For Urban Farms by Deena Prichep
• Jim Hightower's Common Sense Commentary Building Neighborliness with Free Fruit by Jim Hightower
• The Oregonian Urban Foraging by Matthew Preusch
  
• New York Times Neighbor, Can You Spare a Plum? by Kim Severson
• Orion Magazine Fruit Gleaners by Elizabeth Grossman
• Willamette Week Give!Guide 'Katy Kolker, Portland Fruit Tree Project' by Ben Waterhouse
• SustainLane 'Waste Not, Rot Not'
• Willamette Week 'How to Live Cheap in Portland' by Corey Pein
• ScienceLine 'A Fruit Tree That Could Grow in Brooklyn' by Eric R. Olsen
• Touch the Soil Magazine 'Food Idea for Every Community' by Susan Clark
• Edible Portland Magazine, 'Finders Keepers: Reaping the Harvest of Portland's Found Food Movement' by Lisa Weiner.
• The Oregonian, 'Ripe for the Picking' by David Santen
• The Oregonian, 'Portland Nonprofit Organizes Neighborhood Fruit-Harvesting Parties' by Noelle Crombie

PFTP is also mentioned in the following books:

• Food Lovers Guide to Portland by Liz Crain
• American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom
• A Householders Guide to the Universe by Hariet Fasenfest

Awards:

2011 Oregon Urban and Community Forestry Award
Civic Organization Award
from Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon Community Trees

2010 Light a Fire Award
Best New Nonprofit Organization
from Portland Monthly Magazine

2010 Innovators Award
awarded to PFTP's Executive Director, Katy Kolker
from 1000 Friends of Oregon

2008 Skidmore Prize
awarded to PFTP's Executive Director, Katy Kolker
from Willamette Week and Momentum Market Intelligence