This special event is part of OMSI's Oregon Science Festival week! Bring your own container/jug for cider, and bring fruit if you have any! We will harvest what is ripe from the orchard also!

Participate in the care of this community orchard resource through joining monthly work parties!

If you're able to come, please bring personal pruning and/or landscaping tools, uniquely identified. And, of course, dress for the weather! We'll bring an orchard ladder, some buckets, and tools. Hope to see you there!

Tentative dates and plans:

Feb. 18: Winter pruning/Juniper removal

Mar. 17: Understory plants

April 21: Pollination, pest & disease management, weeding

May 19: Pest & disease management, weeding

June 16: Fruit thinning, pest & disease monitoring, irrigation preparation

July 21: Weeding, pruning, watering

Aug. 18: Weeding, watering, fallen fruit cleanup, some harvesting

Sept. 15: Tree harvest, fallen fruit cleanup, weeding

Oct. 20: Tree harvest, fallen fruit cleanup, weeding

Nov. 17: Putting SCOrch to bed