City Fruit | Harvest: Get Help

If you live in the Puget Sound region and need help with harvesting the fruit on your trees, contact the following organizations listed below (depending on where you live). If you can pick your own tree and would like help delivering the fruit, check out the list of recipient organizations.

Harvest Fruit

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Harvest Your Fruit
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Fruit Harvest Handbook

Picking Fruit

The following tips apply to picking fruit:

For apples and pears, lift and twist. Plums will give easily.

Keep stems attached to fruit, if possible. (Fruit lasts longer if there isn’t a hole for bacteria to enter.)

Don’t overfill boxes and bags, especially with soft fruit.

If you pick up fruit off the ground, be sure to wash it. It can pose a risk of E coli.

Try to pick all the fruit, if possible, since fruit left on the tree (or under the tree) attracts fruit pests.

Greater Seattle

Phinney-Greenwood Neighborhood

Colman Neighborhood (Central Seattle)

West Seattle, White Center & Burien

Harvest Fruit

Picking Fruit