Body Street Edible Arboretum

ReTreeUS and Cultivating Community seek to grow and sustain fruit and nut trees accessible to the public for the purpose of educating and feeding the community. The arboretum prioritizes fruits that are productive and disease-resistant in the region, as well as native plants. The arboretum will be maintained with Cultivating Community’s partners such as the City of Portland, and ReTreeus. Through various initiatives of community outreach, volunteers will participate in projects such as art and tree identification, tasks such as mulching and cleaning, and workshops such as pruning and thinning. These efforts will ensure the orchard collection of fruit and nut varieties is sustained with maintenance grounded in community collectivism, nourishment, and education. The plantings will reflect the ecological abundance that nature provides in a space of urban agricultural aesthetics and practices. The Boyd Street Edible Arboretum is unique in that it holds trees you can eat from! Further, the arboretum has the Malus Domestica Lodi apple tree, one of the earliest varietes to ripen and so good for apples pies and sauces! It also has cornelian cherries, unique in the dogwood family given that they are edible!! And lastly, the arboretum has Malus Domestica Lucy Rose, whose red flesh does not oxidize, making it great for salads, and other vegetable mixings.