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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper and a ladder as lead volunteer for the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a City Fruit-sponsored group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Fremont. Since 2013 she has worked for City Fruit as the Orchard Steward Coordinator. Her mission is to wrangle and train volunteers to care for fruit trees on public land in Seattle. Barb was Director of Sustainability for the John Stanford International School in 2009-2011 and in 2012-13 was the parent representative on the JSIS Green Team. Barb helped the school attain Level 3 certification as a Washington Green School. She started the Green Team at Hamilton Int'l Middle School in 2014, and they achieved Level 1 Washington Green Schools certification in Waste and Recycling in June 2014.

Cider sippin’ with City Fruit

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(Wallyhood welcomes Wallingford resident Barb Burrill, a lady with a lopper and a ladder. Barb is an urban orchard steward in Wallingford for City Fruit and also oversees the recycling/composting program at John Stanford International School. She’ll be sharing some tips from time to time on caring for fruit trees and on keeping Wallingford green.)

Did you know that Wallingford has its own group of stewards that take care of public apple trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail? A group of Wallingford neighbors (coincidentally, all women, AKA “Ladies with Loppers and Ladders”) have been working with six apple trees …

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