Media Coverage

 Video & Audio

• OPB TV: Oregon Field Guide Portland Fruit Tree Project (February 2013)
  
• OPB News: Too Much Fruit? Tired Of Yellow Jackets? Fruit Tree Project Can Help (October 8, 2012)
  
• OPB Radio - Destination DIY Doing It Ourselves (May 2012)
  
• Peak Moment Conversations Portland’s Backyard Fruit - From Waste to Feast  (August 2011)
• KATU News: Everyday Heroes Harvesting Hope (September 30, 2011)
• KPTV: MORE Good Day Oregon Portland Fruit Tree Project, (July 19, 2011)
  
• Cooking Up a Story Urban Fruit Gleaning, (July 2010)
  
• Kaiser Permanente Helps Fight Hunger through 'the Persimmon Partnership', (September 2010)
  
• OPB Radio Rethinking the Front Yard: Cities Make Room For Urban Farms (Sept. 29, 2009)

Articles

• National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service Community Orchards  (May, 2013)
  
• The Oregonian Sabin Community Orchard to Get Descendent of Oldest Apple Tree in the Pacific Northwest (April 26, 2013)
  
• The Oregonian Portland Fruit Tree Project and Village Gardens Develop North Portland Community Orchard  (April 4, 2013)
  
• The Oregonian Sabin Community Orchard celebrates three years in Northeast Portland (January 9, 2013)
• The Oregonian North Portland will have community orchard (January 7, 2013)
• Edible Portland A Community Harvest (Winter 2013)
• Nerd Wallet NerdWallet’s Top 4 Sustainable Thinking Nonprofits in Portland (September 4, 2012)
  
• Janaia's Journal A Gleaning Project Shares Fruitful Abundance (August 2012)
• Transition Voice Tempted by the Fruit of Another (August 2012)
• Care2 Organization Harvests 25,000lbs of Fruit From Unloved Trees (August 16, 2012)
• The Oregonian Northwest Cook: Portland Fruit Tree Project announces dinner series (July 6 2012)
• Be Portland Non-Profit Harvests Fruit for the Needy (October, 2011)
  
• The Oregonian With new program in Southeast, the Portland Fruit Tree Project will expand its reach (August 24, 2011)
• Jewish Review Couple seek fruit tree owners in SW for 'no-brainer' mitzvah (July, 2011)
• Cooking Light Magazine Portland's Food Rules (May 2011)
• Portland Monthly  Light a Fire: Organizational Awards (October 8, 2010)
• The Oregonian Orchard planted in urban greenspace in Northeast Portland (April 03, 2010)
  
• Jim Hightower's Common Sense Commentary Building Neighborliness with Free Fruit (July 31, 2009)
• The Oregonian Urban Foraging (November 13, 2009)
  
• New York Times Neighbor, Can You Spare a Plum? (June 9, 2009)
• Willamette Week 'How to Live Cheap in Portland'  (August 13th, 2008)
• ScienceLine 'A Fruit Tree That Could Grow in Brooklyn' (August 1, 2008)
• The Oregonian, 'Portland Nonprofit Organizes Neighborhood Fruit-Harvesting Parties' (September 04, 2007)

PFTP is also mentioned in the following books:

• Food Lovers Guide to Portland by Liz Crain
• American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom
• A Householders Guide to the Universe by Hariet Fasenfest

Awards:

2011 Oregon Urban and Community Forestry Award
Civic Organization Award
from Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon Community Trees

2010 Light a Fire Award
Best New Nonprofit Organization
from Portland Monthly Magazine

2010 Innovators Award
awarded to PFTP's Executive Director, Katy Kolker
from 1000 Friends of Oregon

2008 Skidmore Prize
awarded to PFTP's Executive Director, Katy Kolker
from Willamette Week and Momentum Market Intelligence

 

 

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Everyday Heroes: Harvesting Hope

 

 

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Peak Moment Conversations: Portland’s Backyard Fruit - From Waste to Feast

“We look forward to a time when we’re really able to harvest all of the fruit trees in the city that aren’t being fully utilized,” envisions Katy Kolker, founder and executive director of Portland Fruit Tree Project.