Lawrence Fruit Tree Project

As we enter June our orchard is getting lush with vegetation! The garden vegetables are making leaps in size everyday! Tree fruits are growing!
Join us Monday evenings 6-8 pm to help our little orchard thrive. Bring water, wear your garden clothes , and bring food to share if you feel like it. LCO is at 830 Garfield street in Lawrence Ks. Park cars on Delaware st.

Reminder:we’re at the orchard on Saturday! May 16 1-4pm. Otherwise join us Monday nights at 6! Plants are growing! It’s gettin’ dreamy, come see for yourself.

Hello fellow plant people! Do you have leftover garden vegetables that need a home? We may be able to use them in our garden. Send a message if you’d like to donate plants.

Here’s five different volunteer dates in May at Lawrence Community Orchard! LCO is a free food park that’s maintained by volunteers like you! We grow all sorts of fruit trees, fruit bushes, vegetables, herbs and fibre plants. We also produce fruit trees in our nursery for other community projects in Lawrence. Volunteering with us is an opportunity to learn about trees, make friends, and connect with nature! We hope to see you this May.
Lawrence Community Orchard is located at 830 Garfield St. in East Lawrence. Please park cars on Delaware Street. Show up with water and wear gardening clothes. If you’d like to bring a snack to share you will be very popular.

Recap from Saturdays work day: we planted strawberries! Uncovered one of the figs, was it too early? We’ll find out. We focused on getting nursery trees potted and new rootstocks planted in the field. We potted up apples, trifoliate orange, black raspberries, jujube and planted pear rootstocks in the ground. We received a truck load of city compost! Thanks Josh! Sifted composted from our homegrown compost bin. Got the mower out and worked on some of the taller grass. Thank you for showing up and supporting Lawrence Fruit Tree Project! Our next workday is in 2 weeks, April 18th 1-4pm.

We’ve got three dates in April that you can plug into at the orchard! 4/8, 4/18, 4/25, 1-4pm. On Saturday 4/8 we’ll be planting strawberry beds, planting rootstocks in the nursery, stocking the root pruning beds, and uncovering figs! We hope to see you there!! LCO is located at 830 Garfield street in east Lawrence. Park cars on Delaware street. Bring water, and wear gardening attire.

Last Saturday we had over 25 volunteers! With all that help we cleaned up litter along Burroughs creek between 13th and 14th st. We cleared brush for a pocket public orchard project at our neighbors. We got all the garden beds prepped and some seeds planted. We got all the mulberry, jujube, paw paw, and bush cherry potted up. We uncovered figs (half way). It’s really amazing what we can do when we get big numbers of people showing up for the orchard! We’ll be back at the orchard Saturday April 4th 1-4 pm. We look forward to seeing you then!