Native Bees For Beginners is an interactive & family friendly learning experience at Leaven Community Center on March 8th. We will talk all about native Mason & Leafcutter bees and how you can support these pollinators right where you live. This is an incredibly special opportunity to learn directly from Pacific Northwest leaders in native bee biology, installation, and community food resilience.

🐝 Hosted by Bee The Change Landcare’s Carly Thomasset - ecological land steward and founder of Bee The Change’s Native Bee Stewardship Program. Carly works directly with homeowners to install and tend native bee houses for thriving, resilient gardens.

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and our favorite local bee Expert, Stephen Anderson, to learn about a year in the life of mason bees, and receive a pre built to host and harvest them on your property. 

Participants will receive instruction and all materials to bee successful, and will take home group of slumbering mason bee cocoons (so cool!).

Join East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District and Portland Fruit Tree Project to discuss design tips, ways to build fertile soil, and how to conserve water while producing a harvest.

You Must Register in Advance at: https://emswcd.org/events/yard-garden-workshops/

This is a sliding scale donation based event for Portland Fruit Tree Project, as we seek to bring educational content to the public while covering our costs, please consider the "green bottle" graphic, included in the event photos, when making your ticketing selection.: )

Fruit varieties are TBD based on the weather, and harvest dependent (contact Kathryn@portlandfruit.org to bring your own): 

• September 20th - Possibly Plums!

• October 11th - Apple and maybe a Bounty of Berries!

• November 8th - Quince-Time and Perhaps Persimmon!

Come enjoy N/A beverages, cheese and crackers, and "Let's Jam".

Join us for food and fun at Leaven Community Center as we celebrate Fall together with apple cider fresh pressed with apples from our urban orchard!

This is a sliding scale donation based event for Portland Fruit Tree Project, as we seek to bring educational content to the public while covering our costs, please consider the "green bottle" graphic, included in the event photos, when making your ticketing selection.: )

Fruit varieties are TBD based on the weather, and harvest dependent (contact Kathryn@portlandfruit.org to bring your own): 

• September 20th - Possibly Plums!

• October 11th - Apple and maybe a Bounty of Berries!

• November 8th - Quince-Time and Perhaps Persimmon!

Come enjoy N/A beverages, cheese and crackers, and "Let's Jam".

Join East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District and Portland Fruit Tree Project to discuss design tips, ways to build fertile soil, and how to conserve water while producing a harvest.

You Must Register in Advance at: https://emswcd.org/events/yard-garden-workshops/

This is a sliding scale donation based event for Portland Fruit Tree Project, as we seek to bring educational content to the public while covering our costs, please consider the "green bottle" graphic, included in the event photos, when making your ticketing selection.: )

Fruit varieties are TBD based on the weather, and harvest dependent (contact Kathryn@portlandfruit.org to bring your own): 

• September 20th - Possibly Plums!

• October 11th - Apple and maybe a Bounty of Berries!

• November 8th - Quince-Time and Perhaps Persimmon!

Come enjoy N/A beverages, cheese and crackers, and "Let's Jam".

YOU MUST bring your own Kayak, SUP, or canoe, and always bring your Personal Floatation Devices to this event or register for the very limited seating in the Big Canoes! We will launch from Willamette Park and Harvest blackberry, hear updates from our friends at the Human Access Project about Pamplin Media's mismanagement of our river... and HAP's progress in fixing it. 

Saturday, July 19th 5pm
Poppy & Finch Moss Ball/Kokedama Workshop

$85 fee includes:
• 15% workshop fee will be donated to Portland Fruit Tree Project
• all supplies/materials
• An informational pdf/print out about native plants & the benefits of gardening with them
• A print out of a list of resources & native plant nurseries

• The first person to sign up, with a friend, will take home a kokedama made by me during the workshop

Please use the pre-sale form for all of your spring pollinator, soil health, and pest prevention needs (well, not all of them, but quite a few). Your purchase support providing these same services and supplies for community orchard and garden spaces! Please plan to pick up at our offices (Leaven Community Center 5431 NE 20th Ave) AND ask our team all of your questions on 3/15 between 1pm and 3pm. Can't make it then? We're not monsters and will try to accommodate. Please email hello@portlandfruit.org to coordinate.

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and our favorite Local Bee Expert, Stephen Anderson, to learn about Mason Bees, and build a home to host and harvest them on your property. Participants will receive instruction and all materials to Bee successful, and can help themselves to complementary Cider during the event. Light snacks will be provided.  Just $35! Contact us if you need assistance affording the fee. : )

Celebrate the giving season with us and skate on ½ price day!

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and Oregon State University Expert Preservationist Danita Macy at the Food Innovation Center to learn the "why", the "how" and all of the "musts" (along with tips and tricks!) to do safe canning at home.

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and local mason bee expert Stephen Anderson in a 1.5 to 2 hour hands-on class harvesting your mason bee cocoons and preparing them for overwintering. This class is for those with their own bee houses, although we will also have a few demo houses on hand.

Stephen will walk us through best practices and common issues with caring for bees in their sleepy months. Bring your bee house, a pocket knife, some old toothbrushes and a couple of thin plastic 1 or 2-cup containers.

This is an opportunity to BYO harvested fruit to press, we will also have LOTS on hand from Portland Fruit Tree Project harvests!

PLEASE BRING CONTAINERS for cider if you would like to take some home, we will have limited containers for purchase.

Join us for a Free Cider Press days as part of our ongoing work parties at Gabriel Orchard in SW Portland! Thanks to Portland Parks and Rec for supporting this community event!

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and Oregon State University Expert Preservationist Danita Macy at the Food Innovation Center to learn the "why", the "how" and all of the "musts" (along with tips and tricks!) to do safe canning at home.

Hands-on jam making and best practices will be covered, and attendees will take home 2 jars each from each of the classes of jam made from fruit harvested from the urban canopy - the rest of the jars will go to serve other PFTP community programs and fundraisers.