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2524 16th Ave S #301 www.cityfruit.org Seattle, WA 98144 [email protected] ORCHARD TOUR MAP TOUR TIPS Meadowbrook 3. Piper’s Orchard 4. Community Garden and Orchard Plan your visit with 2. Chuck’s Hop Shop our online map at: Picardo Farm P-Patch cityfruit.org/ PHINNEY/ 5. orchardtourmap GREENWOOD Whole Foods 6. Rosevelt Square • For the purposes of the 7. tour, visit the orchards Good Shepherd Center 8. Freeway Estates & Meridian Playground Community Orchard between 12noon & 4pm. • Dress for the weather 10. University of WALLINGFORD Washington Farm and wear sturdy shoes. 9. Burke-Gilman Trail • The orchards are always 1. Gilman Gardens (Wallingford) looking for new volunteers! If you are interested in helping out, make sure to let the hosts know. LEGEND Dr. Jose Rizal Park 11. Orchard 12. Bradner Gardens Sponsor 13. Amy Yee Tennis Center Cider Pressing WEST SEATTLE Columbia City Bakery Demos/Tours SOUTH Brandon SEATTLE Triangle Garden Treats/Tasting 15. 16. Martha Washington Park Choose Your Own Orchard Adventure with the info on the back of this flyer! Orchard & Harvest Tour Bingo Make sure to complete your bingo card for great prizes!! 1. Gilman Gardens 9. Burke-Gilman Trail 13th Ave. West and Gilman Dr. West (Interbay) 2400 North Northlake Way (Wallingford) Gilman Gardens is a community vegetable garden in Queen Anne The Burke-Gilman Trail in Wallingford hosts several groves of fruit built by volunteers from an abandoned lot. During the tour, the trees scattered over 1 1/2 miles of the former railway bed. Most of garden will press orchard apples into juice! Learn how urban apples the mature trees grew from tossed apple cores. The orchard near become a delicious beverage and pick up a tasty treat to help the Sunnyside Avenue boat ramp consists of new plantings of support the garden. quince, persimmon, crabapple, and plum, plus transplanted "rescue" trees such as pear, apple, and fig. Sample different seedling apples 2. Chuck’s Hop Stop - SPONSOR while you consider helping water the trees with 5 gallon buckets. 656 NW 85th St. (Northwest) 10. University of Washington Farm What pairs better with an orchard tour than cider? Stop by 3501 NE 41st St. (Laurelhurst) family-friendly Chuck’s on your way to Piper’s to taste a wide selection of ciders and grab a tasty bite from the rotating food truck on site. This orchard is the product of a few students’ desire to experiment with alternative ways of growing food; this includes different 3. Piper's Orchard irrigation methods, pruning/not pruning and intercropping with 950 NW Carkeek Park Rd. (Northwest) plants such as comfrey and Elaeagnus shrubs. At the orchard tour The oldest orchard in Seattle, Piper's is actually two orchards people can expect to get a full history of the orchard and a unique layered atop one another - the first was planted a century ago by experience seeing as how our orchard in located in the center of early Seattle entrepreneurs to supply fresh fruit for high-end baked our vegetable production area. goods and confections, the second orchard is an ongoing restoration 11. José Rizal Orchard and "fruit museum" of historically significant varieties initially 1007 12th Ave. South (International District / NW Beacon Hill) planted in the 1980's. During the tour, Piper's Orchard stewards are available to recount the colorful history of this site, to describe The public orchard at Dr. José Rizal Park is the largest orchard in and demonstrate the maintenance activities (planting, grafting, South Seattle, and features three stands totaling 54 trees. They pruning, mulching, harvesting), and to provide education on the were planted in the 1950s by a Chinese American neighbor in historic fruit varieties as well as their properties and uses. 8-feet deep soil the City of Seattle used to stabilize a massive landslide in 1949. Since 2007, volunteers have opened access to the 4. Meadowbrook Community Garden & Orchard orchard, removing blackberries, building a trail from the upper park, 10533 35th Ave. NE (Northeast Seattle) as well as improving habitat in the adjacent woods. There are 17 Located on the Seattle Parks seven acre site, Meadowbrook varieties of apples, and you'll have the chance to sample many on Community Garden and Orchard borders Nathan Hale High School the tour, plus learn the history of the park,spot resident native and the Meadowbrook Community Center. The land was developed birds and mammals, and enjoy a fabulous view of downtown, Elliott in 1932 by Time Oil Company as a site for a 9-hole golf course. Bay, and the Olympics! Prior to development, the site was a homestead farm by the Fischer 12. Bradner Gardens Family. In 1995, the site began development as an orchard. At the 1730 Bradner Pl. South (Mount Baker) site, you’ll discover a Fig Orchard, an Edible Hedge, plus over a dozen varieties of fruit trees! Stewards will demonstrate an organic Once the site of a 1950’s housing project, Bradner Gardens now spray technique aimed at reducing pests and will discuss mason bees. encompasses a demonstration garden, P-Patch, and Seattle Tilth's Learning Garden, as well as boasting a number of fruit trees. The 5. Picardo orchard will host short tours at each hour and offer snacks and 8040 25th Ave. NE games to attendees. Picardo Farm P-Patch begun in 1973 is the original community garden 13. Amy Yee Tennis Center Orchard in Seattle. The "P" in P-Patch stands for the Picardo family. We are a 2000 Martin Luther King Jr Way South (Mount Baker) multi-faceted operation. Our main orchard (on the east side of Picardo Farm P-Patch), is reached via a grand staircase flanked by two Rushing toward the upper courts for an after-work match, tennis columnar apple trees arching above. Visitors may help in the orchard, players at the Amy Yee Tennis Center might be surprised to glance taste grape juice, learn about mason bees and our experiment up and find themselves surrounded by one of Seattle’s urban comparing organic spray vs barrier methods for insect protection. orchards. During the tour, visitors will learn the history of the area, including hidden relics from the 1940’s, learn more about 6. Whole Foods Roosevelt Square - SPONSOR grafting, including some very unusual combinations, and have the 1026 NE 64th St. (Roosevelt) opportunity to taste varieties of apples. Stop by Whole Foods Roosevelt Square for a special pop-up, tour-only 14. Columbia City Bakery - SPONSOR treats, and kids’ activities! Look for the tent in front of the store. 4865 Rainier Ave. South (Columbia City) 7. Freeway Estates Community Orchard On your way between South Seattle stops, make sure to include 6030 6th Ave. NE (Green Lake) Columbia City Bakery! The shop will offer special treats using City This young orchard contains a variety of fruit and nut trees, coming Fruit produce during the event. to life in 2011 as the first public garden space on Washington State 15. Brandon Triangle Orchard Department of Transportation in the Puget Sound area. During the 5201 South Brandon St. (near Seward Park) tour, the orchard will hold a cider press, raffles, and have fruit pie pieces for sale. Brandon Triangle Orchard was started in 2010 on public property owned by Seattle Department of Transportation - its goal is to 8. Good Shepherd Center & Meridian Playground add an attractive natural feature to the neighborhood, while 4649 Sunnyside Ave. North (Wallingford) demonstrating low-input approaches to growing food in a “The Home of the Good Shepherd” was built on an 11 acre site in small urban space. The orchard will offer guided tours with 1907 as a home for girls in crisis. The original orchard was planted plant identification; short presentations on pruning and pest with apple, pear, plum and cherry trees. Although the home shut management; mason bee information; Q&A on cultivar selection down in 1973 the current managers, Historic Seattle and Seattle and fruit tree maintenance. Parks and Recreation, continue to maintain the remaining fruit 16. Martha Washington Orchard trees, including many from the original orchards. The two 6600 57th Ave. South (Seward Park) orchards, one at the Good Shepherd Center parking lot and one at Meridian Playground, offer 23 varieties of apples, seven varieties Martha Washington Park is a beautiful expanse of green lawn and of Asian Pears, European pears, plums, grapes, and raspberries, many fruit trees with beautiful views of Lake Washington and on a clear of which will be available to taste and learn more about during the day, Mt. Rainier. During the tour, explore the apple and cherry tour. You are welcome to help harvest the fruit! trees at the beautiful site. Water Catchment Demo Harvest Pollinators Cider Press Event Tour Treats/Tastings Restroom.