8th Annual Fruit Tree Sale & Environmental Fair

Saturday January 19, 2008

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

 

 

Location: Emerson Unitarian Church, 1900 Bering Dr., West of Loop 610 between Westheimer and San Felipe.

 

urban harvest fruit tree saleNEW THIS YEAR . . .

More trees,

more checkout lines,

expanded grounds for easier shopping,

an abundance of nearby parking,

and more volunteers to help you move your trees!

 

Directions: From the 610 Loop West, exit Westheimer and drive west 1.2 mile to Bering Drive. Bering is one street west of Chimney Rock. From Westheimer turn right and drive north .6 miles to Emerson Unitarian Church, ½ block south of San Felipe on the west side of the street.

 

This annual sale brings together far more types and varieties of fruit trees than can be found anywhere else in the greater Houston area. This year will mark the 20,000 tree to be sold in the 8th year of the sale. Our selection will include far more than the 4,500 trees, berries and bushes that were available for sale last year, so that far more shoppers can complete their wish list.

 

Shop Houston’s best selections of savory fruit trees suited to your garden and learn from local environmentalists. Come early - popular and hard-to-find varieties sell quickly.

New this year is 650 additional parking spaces, bringing the total to about 1100, a sale site expanded into part of the parking area to make for easier movement, more checkout and entry lines to move things more quickly, and the checkout lines outside the area of the main sale, so that customers can easily get to the trees they want to purchase. In addition, there will be more volunteers to help customers move their trees when they have too many to handle themselves.

 

Funds raised by this sale go directly to the many vital Urban Harvest programs, including outdoor classrooms at schools, donation gardens supplying fresh food to soup kitchens and food pantries, and the many organic gardening classes offered so inexpensively by Urban Harvest and its talented and knowledgeable staff. It also helps fund the Bayou City Farmers’ Market where local growers bring their produce to sell. The sale itself helps to make Houston a greener place to live - our sale was recently given an Arbor Day award for this effort.

 

There will be a presale class held on January 5, from 2 to 4 p.m. and repeated January 12, from 2 to 4 p.m., at Emerson Westwood Hall (the small building north of the main building). The class will cover all the varieties that will be for sale, as well as how to plant and care for each unique situation. There is no need to register for this class - just come on out.