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Tree Care Services with City Fruit

25.04.2024 in Fruit Tree Harvest

While City Fruit has a Master Fruit Tree Stewards (MFTS) program to educate the community on caring for fruit trees, City Fruit also offers tree care services.  The current tree care specialist, Julian Garcia, offers care and maintenance of privately owned trees to ensure healthy…

Celebrates: City Fruit’s Annual Gala

25.04.2024 in General/ Logistics

For the last five years, City Fruit has hosted an annual gala called “Celebrates.” Galas generally tend to be opportunities for non-profit organizations to raise funds for their programing, and City Fruit has added the equally important opportunity of “friend-raising.” Celebrates is an event geared…

Cider Press with City Fruit

25.04.2024 in Fruit Tree Harvest

City Fruit harvests an abundance of apples every year, and congruently owns three cider presses.  Of these three, two are manual (meaning everything is done by hand) and one is electric (meaning most of the work is done by machine), and all are available for…

Tabling with City Fruit

30.11.2022 in General/ Logistics

Written by Vera-Camille Ingressa, Fundraising and Development Specialist VISTA. Tabling is just like it sounds: laying information about an organization out on a table, sitting behind it, distributing that information, and answering questions. Simple enough, but why do it? Tabling is a good way to…

Using Events for Fundraising with City Fruit

30.11.2022 in Development

Written by Vera-Camille Ingressa, Fundraising and Development Specialist VISTA. Through fundraising and development, work is an ongoing priority, City Fruit does a variety of fundraising events throughout the year to supplement these efforts. Three are GiveBig, a giving drive held in spring, City Fruit Celebrates,…

Procurement for a Silent Auction with City Fruit

29.11.2022 in Development

Written by Vera-Camille Ingressa, Fundraising and Development VISTA. Running a silent auction is a great way to raise funds for an organization. Though similar to a regular auction, this option reserves a nice set of possibilities that are less simple to pull off live. Silent…

U-Pick Program with City Fruit

07.01.2022 in U-Pick Gleaning

Written by Jordyn Egbert, Fundraising and Development Specialist VISTA As part of City Fruit’s Harvest Program, they offer community members the opportunity to participate in their U-Pick Program. This program provides tree owners the ability to harvest their tree and then contact the City Fruit…

Harvest Program at City Fruit

07.01.2022 in Fruit Tree Harvest

Written by Jordyn Egbert, Fundraising and Development Specialist VISTA. Updated by Jeanie Neumann, Fundraising and Development Specialist VISTA. Through City Fruit’s Harvest Program, their team and volunteers harvest roughly 25,000 to 40,000 pounds of fruit annually (this varies year to year, depending on weather) —…

Orchard Steward Work Parties

15.10.2021 in Volunteer Relations

The Harvest VISTA worked alongside the Senior Program and Education Manager  to create a schedule of monthly work parties that will take place at any of the 14 parks City Fruit stewards. Depending on the season, tasks can range from digging tree circles and mulching…