Volunteer opportunities in Central Oregon
Heritage Apple Corps
About Heritage Apple Corps
Heritage Apple Corps, a fiscally sponsored project of Discover Your Northwest, is a volunteer-run initiative to revive, protect, and maintain Central Oregon's pioneer-era fruit trees, planted by homesteading families more than a century ago on what is now the Crooked River National Grassland and other public lands. Working with the U.S. Forest Service and community partners, it restores historic orchards, runs a public Heritage Fruit Tree Registry with DNA-identified varieties, and is establishing a preservation orchard so these living pieces of local history survive.
Volunteering looks like
Volunteers restore and protect historic homestead orchards on public lands: clearing brush and juniper to reduce fire risk and free up water for old trees, hands-on pruning and tree care at restoration workshops and field days, propagating cuttings for a living preservation orchard, and helping document heritage trees. No experience needed; arborists and orchardists teach techniques on site.
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- Nonprofit
- Fiscally sponsored org or program
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Connect Central Oregon
Connect Central Oregon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that strengthens communities in Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties and Warm Springs by connecting people with volunteer opportunities, board positions, and mentorship. This directory is free to use, with no account, no login and no middleman.
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