2018 City Fruit Annual Report

Celebrating 10
Years of Service

2018 ANNUAL REPORT

City Fruit is SHARING

In 2018, City Fruit members, donors, volunteers, and tree owners South King County Expansion – a model for a more participatory harvest
celebrated our 10th year of collecting and sharing Seattle’s Over the past two years, we have explored an expansion into South King
incredible abundance of fruit! The generosity of our donors and County, via our partnership with the International Rescue Committee
funders drove our largest and most exciting growth to date – we (IRC).This partnership allows us to train refugee gardeners with the IRC to
grew to serve ALL of Seattle and expanded into South King County coordinate residential harvests.The harvesters then decide for themselves
via our partnership with the International Rescue Committee. and for their community how to put the fruit to its best and fullest use,
either by sharing it with their neighbors or developing value-added
46,758 lbs of fruit harvested in total products.This partnership represents an opportunity to explore other ways
8,180 lbs of fruit harvested from public orchards in which the value of the harvest can be more directly designed by the
24,099 lbs of fruit donated to meal programs & food banks community itself.
2,659 lbs of fruit sold
29 Community partners who received fruit Many thanks to our grant funders & corporate partners for their support
415 Tree owners participating in the annual harvest of the Great Seattle Fruit Harvest
597 Total number of harvests
450 lbs - largest harvest from a single tree Biel Family Foundation
380 lbs - largest harvest from a public orchard tree (a winter banana at City of Seattle, Neighborhood Matching Fund
Meridian Orchard) City of Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities
$30,123.75 - value of fruit donated to meal programs & food banks Fairlife Foundation
163 Harvest Boxes requested at 72 different residences Fales Foundation
Kawabe Family Foundation
Laird Norton Family Foundation
Lucky Seven Foundation
Nesholm Family Foundation
Puget Sound Energy
Tableau Foundation

City Fruit is SERVICE

Our volunteers showed up in a big way in 2018! We hosted Thank You Orchard Stewards:
more than 900 volunteers through 141 volunteer activities.Thanks
to feedback from our supporters, we also made a big shift in the Pipers Orchard: Don Ricks, Paul Brookshire, Bob Baines
design of our volunteer activities, by integrating free education and Meadowbrook:  Terry Vogel
workshops into our work parties so that volunteers could build Amy Yee Tennis Center:  Ellen Booth
skills while offering service to the public orchards.This resulted in a Martha Washington:  Gavin Miller
more engaged volunteer base and more direct service of Seattle’s Jose Rizal: Craig Thompson
public fruit trees. Freeway Estates - Ruth Callard
Danny Woo - Lizzy Baskerville
910 volunteers contributed 2069 hours via 141
volunteer activities A Salute to our Key Volunteers: 2018 Corporate Volunteers:
$51,083 - value of volunteer labor
325 hours dedicated to pruning public fruit trees Susan Berge Cal McCune Accenture
13 new Master Fruit Tree Steward graduates Ethan Blake Antje Mueller Clarisonic
8 Harvest Hubs with 53 participants Ellen Booth Carter Raaen Cupcake Royale
3 hardy volunteers even watered trees throughout the Niko Butt Reingard Rieger Expedia
summer at the Amy Yee Tennis Center orchard and the Jing Chen Fabiola Rodriguez Fierce Inc
Burke-Gilman Trail. Shan Crawford Rachel Simon Google
Allison Fonte Jude Stoloff Laird Norton
Polly Freeman Elli Stricklin Liberty Mutual
Sue Hartman Chigako Tagami Microsoft
Bria Hedahl Mary Troth Ostara
Harriet Huber Chris Troth Seattle Bank
Chris Jackson Leslie Welty
Shawn Martelock Lesley Werblin Many thanks to our grant funders
Josh Martin  Joe Williams & corporate partners for their
Ross Mazur support of our service education
programming:

Ferguson Family Foundation

City Fruit is STEWARDSHIP Master Fruit Tree Stewards:

City Fruit’s Master Fruit Tree Stewardship
program prepares community members
to grow, cultivate and care for fruit trees
in the greater Seattle community.This
series of workshops combines classroom
and urban orchard experiences to gain
skills in identifying, planting, pruning,
harvesting and sharing fruit from local
fruit trees.

Congratulations 2018 Master Fruit Tree
Steward Graduates:

Andrew Smith-Jones Bruce MacLean
Amber Casali Joanna Stodden
Allison Fonte Kathleen Sherman
Carey Thornton Marco Downs
Chris Hoffer Naomi Cooper
Emelia Williams Paul Brookshire
Gavin Miller Ross Mazur
Hans-Karl Frautschi

Save Seattle’s Apples OUR SSA CASE STUDY

Unfortunately, pest damage is an increasing concern with Seattle’s fruit trees.Without This year, a team of volunteers and
protection, locally grown apples and pears are at high risk of damage from apple maggot staff conducted a case study analysis
fly and codling moth, invasive pests in the PNW. In addition, we are seeing a concerning of the effectiveness of various nets on
increase in the number of trees affected by leafroller moths.The netting used to prevent protecting against pest damage.
codling moth and apple maggot damage is not effective against leafrollers, as they
overwinter in the bark of the tree and emerge when the leaves open up, much earlier •11,652 apples were examined for
than codling moths or apple maggot flies. Leafrollers chew on developing tiny fruit, and a pest damage during netting study
second-generation chews on fruit as it is ripening.The damage does not go to the core of
the apple, but it can be extremely disfiguring. We will use the results of this study to
inform the recommendations for our
In an effort to combat this increasing threat, in 2018 City Fruit launched our fourth year 2019 Save Seattle’s Apples campaign.
of Save Seattle’s Apples – a campaign to increase awareness of and protection against fruit
tree pests. Many thanks to the tree owners who bagged their apples or netted their trees – Many thanks to our grant funders & corporate
this extra step can dramatically increase the quality of the fruit! partners for their support of Save Seattle’s
Apples:
20,000 pest prevention bags distributed within the community
63 public trees netted through Save Seattle’s Apples during 17 netting Charlie’s Produce
work parties In Harmony Sustainable Landscapes
2 P-Patches, Queen Anne and Interbay, netted apple trees for the first time Town & Country Markets
2 retailers, Swanson’s and Magnolia Garden Center, sold netting by the foot Western Cascade Fruit Society
Whole Foods

City Fruit is ACCESS

Since 2016, City Fruit’s has offered a transformative experience for historically marginalized Many thanks to our programming partners:
youth, by offering experiential learning on orchards and fruit trees to more strongly connect
them to their community’s land, food, people, and place. In 2018, we went deeper into Unleash the Brilliance
these connections through our Harvest Crew, which integrated professional and leadership Walk Away City Collaborative
development in order to more strongly connect underserved youth and youth of color to Seattle Parks & Recreation, Good Food Program
environmental resources and opportunities. Seattle Youth Employment Program

168 students participated in Harvest Clubs, which offered hands-on Congratulations to 2018 Master Fruit
learning on Seattle’s fruit and orchards Tree Steward,Youth Graduates:
28 students trained through 3 Harvest Crew programs
1 youth harvester hired through the City of Seattle’s SYEP program Jeremiah B. Bruce M.
20 students certified as Master Fruit Tree Stewards, in our Harvest Crew Cortez C. George M.
program partnership with Unleash the Brilliance (UtB) and Walk Away City Jeremiah D. Keilen M.
Collaborative (WACC) KiQuanna G. Lydia M.
60 trees at 6 public orchards received direct stewardship from Harvest Jaiona G. Nijawn S.
Crew students: Piper’s Orchard, Rainier Beach Urban Farm, Marra Farms, Chaya H. Cashon S.
Maple Playfield, Meadowbrook Orchard, Miller Community Center. KhMerrion K. Charlee S.
Zylon M. De’Juans V.
Jimmy M. Sanaii W.
Jalohn M. Daizhon W.

Many thanks to our grant funders for their
support of youth programming:

The Russell Family Foundation
The Harrington Schiff Family Foundation
Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund

City Fruit is COMMUNITY

Many thanks to our incredible community of supporters:

Strategic Partners: Harrington Schiff Family Foundation MEMBERSHIP REDESIGNED
Church World Services TO SHARE SEATTLE’S HARVEST
Seattle Parks & Recreation Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund
International Rescue Committee Western Cascade Fruit Society In 2018, we re-launched our Membership program with the
goal to share the harvest with even more neighbors across the
Grant Funders: Corporate Partners: city.The resulting growth was unprecedented for City Fruit!
We will continue to increase member benefits and create
$10k + $1000+ alternative pathways to membership, so that we can continue
to build a program that represents the diversity of Seattle’s
Russell Family Foundation Capitol Cider communities!
City of Seattle, NMF Community Charlie’s Produce
Laird Norton • 399 members
Partnerships Fund Puget Sound Energy
MG2 • 4 Fruit for All Pop-ups
$5k+ Seattle Cider
Weyerhaeuser • Tree owners stepped up big time in 2018.They represented
Biel Family Trust Whole Foods Markets ¾ of our members.
Nesholm Family Foundation
Kawabe Family Foundation $500+ • Multiple members were so excited about the new
Laird Norton Family Foundation program that they gifted memberships to friends and
City of Seattle, Seattle Public BECU even to the SE Seattle Senior Center, where one of the
Central Co-op members volunteers
Utilities Cupcake Royale
Lucky Seven Foundation Glassybaby
Tableau Foundation In Harmony Sustainable Landscapes
Norcliffe Family Foundation New Seasons Market
Reuben’s Brews
$1k + T-Mobile
Town & Country Market
Ferguson Family Foundation
Fairlife Foundation
Les Dames d’Escoffier, Seattle

Chapter
Fales Foundation

$1000+ Rebecca Morton $1 - $250 Aubrey Petty Vijay Chemburkar Kjersti Egerdahl
Ross Theilen Leah Baltus Jill Christensen Hannah Elnan-Derse
Jingyang Chen Deirdre Gabbay Melissa Minch & Michael Baran Mallory Clarke Amy Elyse
Mary Diorio Annie Gage Eldan Goldenberg Lorraine Barnes Shenoah Clegg Tricia Enfield
Miss Beck Hallman Paula Jenson Charlot Barney Amy Coe Kevin Fansler
Layla Judkins Catherine Muth Lexa Dundore Shannon Bartkiw Connie Coffman Nancy Finkelstein
Brian McGuigan Yesler Inc John Clotfelter Rebekah Bastian K Coghlan Susan Fitch
Douglas Place Hazel Singer Gwen Vernon Leigh & Hank Beach Rennie Coit Jac Fitzgerald
Craig Thompson Matthew Hall Maryann Wagner Beth Beam Carol-Ann Cole Annie Flansburg-Spiess
Andrew Graf Don Ricks Janet Farness Laurie Becker Kim Copeland Denny Fleenor
John Braden Chely Smithgall Jennifer Harris Scott Bessho Elaine Corets Robert Flor
Patrick Gordon Jodi DeWitt Sara Shores Mahsino Blahmoh Joshua Courteau Nancy Ford
Morgan & Jamison Joshua Furman Rosa Vissers Patty Bonnell Kathryn Crandall Maggie Fox
Kelly Gode Julia Beers Abbie Bowen Bridget Culligan Kris Frossmo
Larsen Erin Hochschild Natalie Place Andrew Bowman Virginia Cummins Barbara Fuller
Ruth Callard Harriet Huber Dina Betser Rob Bright Tracey Day Kat Giantis
Meggen Chadsey Elli Stricklin Liz Cunningham Carol Brinster Rebecca Deboer Marie Gill
Tony Martinelli Thomas O’Connor Linda Robinson Clare Brooks Alex Deckon Marj Gillepsy
Jane & Brian Patrick Conlan Fabiola Rodriguez Jenny Brooks Sydney Decoto Michael Gilmore
Ruth Sanford Rebecca Von Duering Laura Brown Hanna Denmark Annalise Gironi
Jesperson Jeannette Place Samantha Waehlte Syed Bukhari Sara DePasquale Steven Goldsmith
Betsy Moyer Frances Posel Janice Price Emma Burbank Guy Devillier Julie Scheid
Rachel Stoermer Erin Ressler Kathy Buzon Lara Douglass Felicia Gonzalez
$250 - $1000 Gail Savina Kelsey Aanerud Jeniffer Calleja Chris Drape Correigh Greene
Mary Troth Leah Abell Carol Ottenberg Gwen Drolet Michael Greene
Dorothy Bullitt Amy Warren Polly Aird Lauren Carr Rebecca Dugopolski Patti Guenther
Patricia Camp Charlie Butt & Jean Albrecht Melissa Carthum Jessie Dye Daisy Hall
Kate Cook Cassandra Allen Amber Casali Randy Eakin Carolyn Halley
Ian & Dorothy Jennifer Hodges Vinia Amaral Jeanne Castle Joe Easterday Catilin Hamer
Julianne Andersen Margaret Certain Dave Edmundson Dana Hammer
Gardner Christopher Anderson
Julie Keeler Kristin Anderson
Beth Miller

Becky Handshew Garriel Keeble Katherine Mcdonough Virginia Platt Carrie Stafford Amy Williams
Karla Hangsleben Hugh Kelso Sean McEwan Kimberly Powe Heather Stapleton Joseph Williams
Ruth Harper Julia Kerr Linda McFarland Jeanie Powell Dave Stapp Sarah Williams
Phil Harrison Lizz Kopecek Jeanne McGrady Susan Prosser Stacy Stark Shirley Williams
Jessica Hawkins Matt Kowalczyk Elizabeth McGrath Melissa Reeder Jerry Stein Yiling Wong
Leslie Ed Kuerner Megan McIntyre Kelly Reimer Chelsea Steiner Jennifer Woodfield
Lisa Lane Vonda McIntyre Lisa Renoe Karen Sticklin Brittany Wright
Hazlewood-Spurr Alex Lange Peter Mckee Sonja Riveland Peter Stocker WSU Small Farmers
Amy Heyden Marianne Langenbach Eve McMullen Lucinda Roanoke Teresa Street Melanie Wyffels
Michele Hill Jennifer Langston Bonni McNaughton Kristine Robb Thomas Stroud Beckon Wyld
Cathy Hillenbrand Jerad Lavey Shannon Merrick Leonor Robles Shine Sun Amber Zeddies
Mike Hinrichsen Jay Lazerwitz Cathy Mish Robin Roskind Jim Talbot Andrew Zimmerman
Jen Homer Audrey Lee Dan Miskimin Ray Ruhlen David Tarico Michelle Bates-Benetua
Greg Howard Carol Levin Amy Moore Martha Russell Dan Tenenbaum Sara Elmore
Abby Howell Lindsay Lockhart Amy Morgan David Sauvion Mike Ewanciw
Helen Howell Isabell Lubin Paul Morin Hernan Savastano Darcy Thompson Julia Giordano
Bu Huang Karen Lund Kathleen Morris Emily Schaefer Elaine Thompson Danielle Glover
Anna Hurwitz Ingrid Lundin Rene Murry Mary Schroeder Rachel Tobin John Hart
Ruth Huwe Avril Luongo Jena Myers Margrit Schubiger Chris Tobola Noah Kay
Shannon Jakubowski Kelsey Lupole Kirsten Nesholm Kate Schueler Mai-Liis Todd Mani Soma
Gregory Johnson Katy Luxem Chris Neufeld-Erdman Lenore Sharp Sindy Todo Gina Massoni
Jenn Johnson Colm MacCarthaigh Theresa Neylon Anita Shelton Sara Tollefson Elizabeth O’Donoghue
Peg Johnson Sean MacCorkle Lennell Nussbaum Jessica Skelton Christopher Toncray Deems Okamoto
Emily Johnston Meg MacDonald Sara Ochs Yeager Shelby Skiena Janis Traven Sam Osborne
Jerusha Jones Karen Makar Ana Parke Marina Skumanich Lisa Verner Justin Pagan
Kumuda Kali Janelle Manns Leela Pastala Julie Slocum-Bennani Katee Waldman Susan Parker
Hye-Kyung Kang Pat Marcus Cindy Pearlman David Smith Corrie Watterson Theano Petersen
Stuart Kaufman A Marsh Peggy Petrie Jennifer Sobeck Steven Wells Sara Vander Zanden
Laurie Kavanagh Millie May Richard Petters Kelly Song Michael Wenger Blake Doepker
Keiko Kawasaki Jane McCullough Margaret Peyton Barbara Spear Jeanne Whitlark Chris Luboff
Susan Keatts Angela Whittman

Alexander Douglas Lucas DuSablon John Sanders Karen Cowgill Terri Iverson Mary Montgomery
Jamie Hascall Trent Fehl Susan Sanem Ross Mazur Laurie Jerger Ellen Ratajak
Patsy Heasly Jayne Foy Sharon von James Walseth Douglas Kingston Libby Sinclair
Amy Korver Caitlin Fuller Christine Wong La Mer Kyle-Griffiths Andrew Swayne
Pete & Tara Lawrence Steven Gary Wolffersdorff Carl Leighty James Lenihan Marcia Wagoner
Nissa Penland Diane Glinn Brooke Walker June Liu Cynthia McWilliams Dora Rozis
Roberta Ruppin Lindsey Greto Leslie Wall Carol Anderson Sheri Newbold Linda Boyd
David Sarju Steve Haney Raleigh Watts Alex Applebaum Melanie Peters Jeremy Erdman
Eric Schlegel John Harris Sandra Whiting Walker Bohannan Zack Cook Molly Goren
Santeri Voutilainen Kelly Hickman Candice Wong Betsy Brown Melissa Poe Margarita Medina
Karen Chin Marieka Klawitter Gigi Yellen-Kohn Carol Brown Christine Porter J Donoghue
Terry Furchgott Ron Lamb Peg Achterman Becky Chan Mary Purdy Julia Baker
Suzana Jankovic Abbey Laninga Laura Allen Carolina Chang Jeff Reitman Anna Goren
Lindsey Hendren Mina Le Tracey Bernal Christopher Jaech Jude Rosenberg Tamara Guyton
S Olickal M Longman Barb Biondo Stephen Czeck Elisabeth Harwood
Lisa Triesch Ryan McFarland Lynn Cheeney Daniel Dahl Jesus Segura Annie Jesperson
Sarah Beth Miller Eileen Miller Daniel Clarke James Degel Spencer Sheridan M Krukar
Sarah Palmer Lisa Miyashita Shelly Cohen Peter Dewey Robert & Teri Terry Vogel
Sagar Ramachandra Brianna Mordick Nancy Emery Patrick Dunn Rachel Simon
Sharon Rodgers Patricia Nakamura Martha Groom Kristin Follmer Stephens Carrie Ferrence
Susan Ballsun Dani Nelson Sabrina Haworth Chris Gaspard T Stephens Denice Chase
Michelle Beauclair Timmion Nichols Kathleen Linn Catherine Gaylord Judith G. Stoloff Patrick Caffee & Sue
Kathryn Bell Peter Geertz-Larson Tara MacDonald Susan Gilmore Nathaniel Talbot
Bill Bretscher Arthur Peterson Eunice MacGill Emily Gordon John Toutonghi Har tman
Brooke Brod Colleen Pike Judy Maginnis Dave Hanower Leslie Umans Steve Hill
Carol Burton Natalie Powell Eva Nachmanson Anna Henolson Pamela Williams Brad Larsen
Chris Van Liew Marni Rachmiel Joan Ritzenthaler James Herndon Laura Wilson Kim Lokan
L Clark Merlin Rainwater Caroline Simkin Tim House Jeff Dubrule Storie Madrid
Marianna Clark Matt Rittenhouse Jessica Green Wendy Howard Polly Freeman Andrew O’Boyle
Clare Cooper Daniel Sabath Rita Smith Sarah Hufbauer Melissa Hensley Tim Rudolph
Ruth Shimano John Hirschel
Emma LeDu

City Fruit is GROWING

EXPENSES $56,815 Over the past year, we dug into growing our support from the ground up and the response
General Operating $213,898 was incredible – we experienced more than 17% revenue growth, primarily driven by
Personnel $10,597 individual contributions.We leave the year with a lot of confidence in the strength of our
Event $281,310 diverse revenue portfolio and will continue to build onto last year’s work in strengthening
TOTAL our donor and member base.
$31,695
REVENUE $81,555 City Fruit Team City Fruit Board Members
Corporate Partnerships $83,480
Government Grants $81,452 Carrie Ferrence, Executive Director Jeremy Erdman (Amazon), President
Foundation Grants $24,894 Barb Burrill, Orchard Stewardship Manager Andrew Thomas Graf (Starbucks),Vice President
Individual Contributions $303,076 Luke Jesperson, Harvest Manager Betsy Morgan (Sound Operation Solutions),
Earned Income Lisa Miyashita, Communications Manager
TOTAL Natalie Place, Education & Volunteer Manager Treasurer
Emelia Williams, Member Stewardship Manager Brandon Bills (MSR)
Christian Brink, Harvester Patrick Gordon (Seattle University)
Jessca de Francia, Harvest & Youth Morgan Larsen
Brian McGuigan (Laird Norton)
Programs Assistant Amy Warren (Weyerhaeuser)
Sam Pickle, Harvester Laura Wilson (T-Mobile)
Caroline O’Callahan (UW Board Fellow)
Asya Snejnevski, Harvester Annie Fadely (UW Board Fellow)