Apple wassailing is an ancient community tradition in which we gather to share cider, sing incantations to the trees, and honor the land that nourishes us--all to welcome a good crop this season. Join us at your downtown Santa Cruz Community Orchard for the 3rd annual Santa Cruz Apple Wassail. Cider, toast, ribbons, trees, song, laughter, noise, celebration! Our esteemed Wassail King Blaize Wilkinson will promptly begin the ceremonies shortly after our 1pm start time, Saturday March 1, 2020. All…

Join in for as long or as short as you'd like, to help create beauty and nutritious productivity on the bank of the San Lorenzo River in downtown Santa Cruz. And learn more of the principles of seasonal, sustainable orchard maintenance, including a topwork grafting demonstration as we expand our collection of cultivars through the creation of multi-fruiting 'frankentrees'. On this orchard workday at Mike Fox Park, we will conduct seasonal maintenance on the edge of spring, graft more fruit…

As the moisture of Spring transitions to Summer, and fruit swells on branches, come learn about growth season orchard maintenence as we recycle biomass into soil fertility (ie. weeding!) and make corrections to our trees' forms via pruning and training techniques.

Apple wassailing is an ancient community tradition in which we gather to share cider, sing incantations to the trees, and honor the land that nourishes us--all to welcome a good crop this season. Join us at your downtown Santa Cruz Community Orchard for the 2nd annual Santa Cruz Apple Wassail. Cider, toast, ribbons, trees, crisp air, song, laughter, noise, celebration! All are welcomed. Bring your cups for warm cider, pozole, and other treats. Festive costumes encouraged but not required. Location:…

It's been a vigorous season at your Santa Cruz Community Orchard. The time has come to tuck in the trees for the winter, and prepare for an ever more fertile 2019 with a spirited round of autumn orchard maintenance. On this community workday, we will clean up some of the excess of the growing season, build soil fertility with compost dressings and cover crop sowings, amend and prepare planting sites for additional subtropical fruit plantings in the spring, plant out…

Apple wassailing is an ancient orchard-honoring community tradition in which we gather to share cider and sing incantations to the trees in order to welcome a good crop this season. Join us at *your* downtown Santa Cruz Community Orchard at 12pm for a winter pruning and orchard maintenance workshop, or later at 2pm to join our first ever apple wassail! Location: The Santa Cruz Community Orchard has plantings at both Riverside Gardens Park (262 San Lorenzo Blvd) and across the…

Another great opportunity to get involved with your community orchard! On this shorter workday at the Riverside Community Orchard, we will check in on the status of our young fruit trees as we enter the warm dry months of Summer. We'll then haul out some more mulch on some of the remaining unmulched areas, do some weeding, and set a few more plants into the ground. Pop in for as long as you'd like. Bring your work shoes and your…