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.

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and Bauman's Cider to watch cider pressing in person at their Portland Cidery, located at 930 SE Oak Street. BYO container to take 1 gallon of apple juice home, or purchase a fermentation kit to carry away that comes with a 1 gallon glass jug, fermenting packet and tools and instructions for aging hard cider. 

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.

• King Salmon Tartare with Pickled Green Blackberries, and Lacto-Fermented Blackberries, Handmade Lavash Cracker

• Oregon Red Dulse Seaweed and Pickled Cherry Salad with Purple Barley, and Wild Mint

• Mulberry Gazpacho, Pickled Elderberries, Hazelnut Milk

• Grilled Wild Boar, Grilled Plums, Watercress Whipped Potatoes

• Rhubarb and Elderflower Panna Cotta with Cinnamon- Sugar Brioche Toast and Wildflowers

Want to learn more about fruit bearing plants and how to care for them this winter season?

Portland Fruit Tree Project is collaborating with Jessie Spain of Tree and Ladder Home Orchard Care to bring you a series of amazing winter pruning workshops and spring orchard care workshops. These will be held a various orchard spaces in the Portland area so you can choose a date and location that works for you.

To learn about as many trees as possible we encourage you to come to multiple workshops If you purchase 3 or more workshops in the series you are eligible for a 20% discount on your order at checkout with code: LEARN2PRUNE

Portland Fruit Tree Project is collaborating with Jessie Spain of Tree and Ladder Home Orchard Care to bring you a series of amazing winter pruning workshops and spring orchard care workshops. These will be held a various orchard spaces in the Portland area so you can choose a date and location that works for you.

To learn about as many trees as possible we encourage you to come to multiple workshops If you purchase 3 or more workshops in the series you are eligible for a 20% discount on your order at checkout with code: LEARN2PRUNE

Join Portland Fruit Tree Project and the many nonprofit organizations that call the Leaven Community Center home for a street festival, spring plant sale, and fundraiser for climate justice and community resilience.

Sparrowhawk Native Plants will be onsite for folx that are picking up pre-ordered plants. Missed the pre order deadline? There will be a FLASH SALE of leftovers at amazing prices at 2pm (line usually forms 10-15min in advance). Also, Portland Fruit Tree Project will have ample garden plants and fruiting trees and shrubs for folx to choose from throughout the day. 

Visit our 2Towns Ciderhouse and Deschutes Brewery bar and Lavender Lemonade Stand, tour the Leaven facility, and enjoy family-centric activities while learning about your neighborhood nonprofits and Leaven's plans to expand their climate resilience actions in the neighborhood. 

Win prizes all day from Freeya, Portland’s Homegrown Free Marketplace! All attendees will receive a Pro membership to Freeya via email after the event - a $60 Value! 

Join PFTP experts at Oaks Amusement Park March 30th (and 31st while supplies last...) and receive 25% off a ride wrist bracelet with your plant purchase!