The Portland Fruit Tree Project (PFTP) is excited to launch its seasonal “If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Eat ’Em!” blackberry harvest and eradication campaign, inviting Portlanders to roll up their sleeves, harvest invasive Himalayan blackberries, and reclaim neglected urban green spaces. Stay Tuned for landlocked sites TB Announced.

YOU MUST bring your own Kayak, SUP, or canoe, and always bring your Personal Floatation Devices! 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. 

This hands-on series educates participants on safe foraging, methods for removing invasive cane from private properties, and supplies harvested blackberry cane to the Oregon Zoo’s animal browse program (from landlocked sites!).

The Ross Island Blackberry Harvest & Action Day will focus attention on the long-overdue ecological restoration of Ross Island, a site long neglected under Pamplin Media Group’s private ownership. In partnership with the Human Access Project (HAP) and The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, the on water event will spotlight both the urgency of the island’s restoration and the community-led vision to reimagine the Willamette as a clean, accessible, public waterway.

Learn more: https://humanaccessproject.com/swimming/harmful_algae_blooms