An ideal pairing involves Seattle on Thursday, August 1, 2024 when Seattle Cider Co. and Metropolis Fruit, a neighborhood nonprofit devoted to stewarding and harvesting city fruit timber to extend group entry to contemporary fruit, accomplice on its annual cider collaboration, Metropolis Fruit Cider.
This annual cider helps Metropolis Fruit’s efforts to extend equitable entry to contemporary fruit inside the Seattle group, lowering native meals insecurity and meals waste. With simply 16 instances bottled, Metropolis Fruit Cider will likely be provided for a restricted time at Seattle Cider Taproom in SODO, or on-line with transport to 39 states by way of seattlecidercompany.com starting August 1 in the course of the Metropolis Fruit Launch Social gathering. The discharge occasion will happen from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
Metropolis Fruit’s dedication to harvesting and offering year-round care to tons of of fruit timber all through the town, alongside their partnerships with over 30 meals banks and meal packages, continues to extend the accessibility of contemporary fruit for meals insecure group members throughout Seattle.
“Each Seattle Cider Co and Metropolis Fruit strongly prioritize packages that assist our local people. In the present day, we’re proud to accomplice with Metropolis Fruit once more to supply a cider that advances the non-profit’s mission to assist equitable entry to wholesome native meals,” stated Maura Harman, Advertising Supervisor for Seattle Cider Firm. “We look ahead to one other fruitful partnership and the chance to unfold consciousness for Metropolis Fruit’s many essential packages.”
The partnership with Seattle Cider Co’s and Metropolis Fruit began in 2014 when Metropolis Fruit initiated deliveries of apples, unsuitable for meals banks, on the SODO cidery in an effort to eradicate waste from their yearly harvest. By 2015, by way of the partnership, Seattle Cider efficiently “upcycled” these apples right into a cider, enhancing Metropolis Fruit’s harvest viability from 68% to 98%, using crab apples and apples unsuitable for donation. Over time, Seattle Cider has crafted and launched eight earlier Metropolis Fruit Ciders, every distinct, and every classic created from greater than 40 apple varieties harvested in Seattle.
“At Metropolis Fruit, we vastly admire the assist and partnership of Seattle Cider Co, recognizing the laborious work they put into crafting the Metropolis Fruit Cider yearly. Not solely does it style superb, however it contributes to the expansion of our mission,” stated Kara Martin, Government Director for Metropolis Fruit. “Seattle Cider is certainly one of 30 organizations we collaborate with, persistently serving to us innovate and improve the work that we do. By our joint efforts, we domesticate a group the place each tree bears the fruit of alternative and abundance.”
For these searching for extra methods to become involved locally, Metropolis Fruit presents quite a lot of methods to champion the goodness of fruit and assist meals safety efforts in Seattle. From changing into a Metropolis Fruit Member (offering Metropolis Fruit year-round assist, whereas providing you reductions to native companies!), volunteering in public orchards to sharing your fruit, people can assist the non-profit’s mission to cut back meals insecurity and meals waste. If readers are thinking about changing into a Metropolis Fruit Member, volunteering, or sharing their fruit, please e-mail information@cityfruit.org.
Seattle Cider Taproom – 4660 Ohio Ave S – Seattle, WA
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