Festival of Fruit on September 16

FREE and fun for the whole family, the Festival of Fruit will take place on Saturday, September 16 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm at Carkeek Park Education Center, 950 NW Carkeek Park Rd, Seattle, WA.

Festival of Fruit activities include:

An apple pie contest
Cider pressing and tasting
A Master Gardener clinic
Orchard tour
Wildlife habitat tour
Mason Bee demos
Apple identification
Live music from Blue Star Creeper

Bring a homemade apple pie between 10:00 am and 10:30 am to enter into the pie contest or donate a homemade pie for resale. More interested in eating pies than baking them? That’s okay too! Donated pies will be available for purchase at Tillie’s Café, and the proceeds will go toward maintaining the orchard. Contest pies will also be available for purchase.

The Festival of Fruit is organized by the Friends of Piper’s Orchard, a group of dedicated volunteers who rescued the historic North Seattle orchard from invasive plants. Each year, the annual festival raises awareness and funds to help the volunteers ensure that the orchard, originally planted in the 1890s, will survive at least another 100 years.

Alongside the Friends of Piper’s Orchard, the Festival of Fruit is also sponsored by Seattle Parks and Recreation, Carkeek Park Advisory Council, Seattle Tree Fruit Society, and City Fruit.

Getting there

Metro bus lines D, 28 and 40 all travel near the McAbee entrance to Carkeek Park. From there it’s a ½ mile walk down the Piper’s Creek trail to Piper’s Orchard and another ½ mile to the Education Center.