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BOP plants fruit trees to take part Upton revival
On a bright autumn morning, Bryan Ibrafall Wright is strolling through a unique garden which has become a vital community resource and a potential national source for indigo, a dye which is used to color denim…
Harvesting Knowledge: Community Pruning Event
Dozens of community members gathered to learn pruning techniques…
Rock Rose Mulching and Weeding for the winter
Baltimore Orchard Project’s planting partners gathered December 2 to perform some light maintenance on the city’s new orchard of eight trees…
Ashburton and Calloway Garrison Community Members Plant Together
For many years these two Baltimore City neighborhoods with a shared median cared for a small orchard…
Forgotten Fruit: A Brief History of Mulberries in the United States
In 2014, we launched the Mulberry Madness campaign to…
Lakeland Elementary Middle School Tree Planting
Baltimore Orchard Project plants pecan and peach trees at Lakeland Elementary Middle School
Druid Hill Orchard Maintenance and Planting
Baltimore Orchard Project team gathered on October 24th in Druid Hill to…
Apple Harvest Spreads Love and Resources Across Baltimore
The Baltimore Orchard Project bridges the Baltimore Country Club and two wonderful Baltimore City organizations, sharing over 400 pounds of apples
Recreating a Heritage Orchard in Druid Hill Park during the Pandemic
Sometimes you hold your breath, just hoping that a project you are working on will be permitted to move forward…
Preserving the Harvest – Canning!
As the winter nears, we start to prepare ourselves and all that we steward for the change.
Homemade Mint & Serviceberry Soda!
We host monthly nursery workdays at the Baltimore Orchard Project (BOP) in order to involve volunteer community members in caring for our fruit and nut trees…
Fruits of the Past: Uncovering the History of Orchards in Baltimore City
I couldn’t help but wonder what a conversation between the 1897 orchard owners and a group of orchard owners/caretakers from today would sound like…
Fruits of the Past: Uncovering the History of Orchards in Baltimore City
With over 80 orchards showing up in the atlas, I was both excited and slightly overwhelmed…
Fruits of the Past: Uncovering the History of Orchards in Baltimore City
What I expected to see and what the librarian at Hopkins ended up showing me were entirely different…
Fruits of the Past: Uncovering the History of Orchards in Baltimore City
As a kid, it never really sank in that a lot of what I was eating came from some kind of plant or tree…