Tara Eberlin-Pohlman and Dominick Harris plant a plum tree at a home in Northeast Portland where the tree equity score is 83. More affluent neighborhoods have tree equity scores of 100, while ...

The Portland Fruit Tree Project launched in 2006 as the Neighborhood Fruit Tree Project and within a year had changed to its current name. And in 2020, “we changed our emphasis,” executive ...

To keep fruit trees healthy and ensure they bear plenty of fruit, they need sufficient nutrients. Learn when fertilization is ...

PDXFruitTreeTips—the advice text line opened by the Portland Fruit Tree Project (5431 NE 20th Ave., 503-284-6106, portlandfruit.org) on July 8—is one such idea born from this necessity.

Portland plants over 150 trees in Bayside. The project aimed to increase tree canopy cover in the neighborhood that had distinctly fewer trees than the rest of the city and improve environmental ...

Growing fruit trees indoors can transform even the coziest corners of your home into a verdant personal orchard. Even better, ...

Since 2006, the nonprofit has harvested nearly half a million pounds of fruit from its orchards in Portland. Since 2006, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland will soon be home to the world's largest charcuterie board, featuring a 500-foot-long spread of meat, cheese, fruit, and other antipasto - and you can catch a bite!

Portland city officials issued an announcement this spring that puzzled many: After nearly 15 years, the city wasn’t renewing its five-year contract with Friends of Trees, a locally beloved ...

Some fruit trees do not require cross-pollination to reliably produce fruit. These are called self-fruitful or self-pollinating plants, and they will produce well even if only one is planted.

A group aiming to battle food waste planted 162 fruit trees in low-income Portland neighborhoods last year — and they’re hoping their efforts are fruitful in more ways than one. In the spring ...

A group aiming to battle food waste planted 162 fruit trees in low-income Portland neighborhoods last year — and they’re hoping their efforts are fruitful in more ways than one. In the spring of 2023, ...