Partner Event | Apple-Palooza at North Shore Preserve, Orcas Island

Gather your apples and gardening tools and join Land Bank staff and partners at North Shore Preserve for a half-day event focused on heritage apples!

Kwiáht’s Madrona Murphy and local apple expert, Lori Brakken, will be on hand to identity apples from the preserve as well as any that community members bring from home. We will pick North Shore apples for tasting and pressing and include apples Madrona has collected from around the islands.

Local landscaper and orchard expert Marguerite Greening will provide an overview of pruning and tool maintenance techniques and share her expertise in rehabilitating an abandoned orchard. She’ll also discuss the potential for additional plantings and grafting at North Shore Preserve. Participants will be invited to join in the long-term stewardship of the old orchard.

Rain or shine!