City Fruit
Non-profit OrganizationsWashington, United States11-50 Employees
City Fruit is a Seattle-based nonprofit that promotes urban fruit cultivation to nourish people, build community, and support climate protection. It assists private tree owners in growing healthy fruit, helps with harvesting and preserving harvests, and encourages sharing of surplus fruit while protecting urban fruit trees. The organization runs programs to harvest unwanted fruit from private properties, steward and harvest public orchards, train orchard stewards, and channel gleaned fruit to partner organizations. City Fruit serves a network of organizations such as food banks, senior centers, lunch programs, and daycares, delivering thousands of pounds of gleaned fruit for distribution. It participates in collaborations with community groups, including a 2026 partnership with Lakesammamishfriends to steward apple trees in Washington state parks. Based in Seattle, Washington, the nonprofit operates within the urban agriculture and food security space to connect surplus fruit with those in need.