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Plant, Learn, Harvest, Celebrate! Join us at an upcoming orchard event.
We invite you to join POP and our community partners in a wide range of events including planting and caring for orchards across the city; workshops and other educational programs about ecological orchard care and related topics; POPHarvest gleaning opportunities; and harvest festivals and other community events! Volunteers of all ages and skill levels are welcome at planting and orchard care events. Please RSVP below in order to receive detailed event directions and updates and so that we know how many volunteers to expect. We also encourage you to join POP’s volunteer email list to receive announcements of new events and opportunities to get involved.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, September 21
10:00am - 1:00pm
Awbury Food Forest Workday
Join us at the Awbury Food Forest for a monthly workday!
Saturday, September 21
11:30am - 5:30pm
Fresh cider-making at CiderFest
Outreach and fresh cider making at the annual Fairmount Park CiderFest.
Tuesday, September 24
5:00pm - 6:00pm
POPHarvest: Aronia
Join us at 41st and Parkside to harvest aronia!
Thursday, September 26
2:30pm - 5:00pm
Woodford Mansion Orchard Workday
Join us at Woodford Mansion for an orchard workday to get things cleaned up for Apple Festival!
Friday, September 27
10:00am - 2:00pm
Grumblethorpe Orchard Workday and Planting
Join us at Grumblethorpe for an Orchard Workday and understory planting!
Tuesday, October 1
2:30pm - 4:30pm
Poplar FNC Orchard Monthly Work Day
Weeding & pruning at a lush urban orchard
Wednesday, October 2
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Crab Apple Harvest at UPenn
Join us at UPenn to harvest and enjoy abundant crab apples!
Sunday, October 6
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Orchard Planting at Sarah Allen Senior Home
Join us for a fall planting of trees and shrubs at Sarah Allen Senior Home in the Belmont Section of West Philadelphia, part of a larger greening and storm-water remediation initiative sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and Friends Rehabilitation Program.
Saturday, October 12
12:00am - Sunday, October 20, 2019 12:00am
Philadelphia Orchard Week
Join us for our 9th annual Philadelphia Orchard Week, with harvest festivals and other events at community orchards across the city!
Saturday, October 12
9:30am - 12:00pm
Bartram's Orchard Monthly Work Day
Help out with care and maintenance of the most diverse community orchard in the city!
Saturday, October 12
11:00am - 4:00pm
Awbury Harvest Festival 2019
Kick off Philadelphia Orchard Week with a fun family event featuring food, crafts, music, hayrides, goats, cider-pressing and POP's fruit tree giveaway & plant sale!
Tuesday, October 15
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Penn Park Orchard Planting
Lend a hand in expanding the food forest at Penn Park on University of Pennsylvania campus.
Friday, October 18
6:00pm - 8:00pm
POP HarvestEd: Black Walnut: The Ecology and Many Uses
Join us underneath this grandfather black walnut to discuss and learn about it's ecology and many uses as an edible nut, medicine, fabric dye, stain, and more!
Saturday, October 19
10:00am - 1:00pm
Awbury Food Forest Workday
Join us at the Awbury Food Forest for their monthly workday!
Saturday, October 19
10:00am - 12:00pm
Woodford Orchard Planting
Help plant some new fruit and nut trees and set up for the 11th annual Apple Festival!
Saturday, October 19
12:00pm - 2:00pm
East Park Apple Festival
Celebrate the 11th annual Apple Fest at historic Woodford Mansion with POP and the East Park Revitalization Alliance! There will be lots of food and fun including crafts, games, ciderpressing, orchard and house tours, and more.
Sunday, October 20
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Sankofa Harvest Festival at Bartram's Garden
Join in the fun at Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden for their annual Harvest Fest! Stop by POP's table for cider-pressing throughout the day.
Thursday, October 24
10:00am - 12:00pm
Overbrook EEC Orchard Planting
Help out in planting new fruit trees, berries, and perennial flowers and herbs to enhance the food forest at the Overbrook Environmental Education Center.
Saturday, October 26
9:00am - 12:00pm
Cobbs Creek Orchard Planting
Help us transform the new Cobbs Creek Orchard into a food forest with plantings of hundreds of new perennial flowers and herbs.