Caption:  The Mural at Westheight Park.  Funds for this mural were provided through a grant to the Community Orchard from the Foundation.  The mural was painted by our neighbor Brad Bruce.


NOW THAT THE GIVING GROVE IS IN PLACE, VOLUNTEERS WILL WORK TO KEEP THE GROVE ALIVE THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.

Volunteers have formed teams to divide the work of tending the Grove during the next year.  The following schedule is for watering and weeding.  Major work, like de-budding trees and mulching will be group activities.

Here are the Teams and the months they have set up for tending the Grove:

Team Apple, November & December 
  Mary Smith                           
  Grant Buller
  Reese Fauser
  Jack Simon
  Nancy Ninon

 Team Brodine, September & October
   Matt Brodine
   Lydia Brodine
   the Brodine daughters

Team Charlie, May & June
  Charlie Cummings
  Everett Mills
  Jennifer Mills
  Eric Mulonday

Team Darcy, March & April
  Darcy Curtiss
  Kevin Curtiss 
  Katrina Bruce

Team Erickson, January & February
  Bruce Erickson
  Kara Erickson
  Sarah Pike

Team Foxtrot, July & August
  Joel Von Fange
  Rick Yarnell
  Michael Kauzlarich

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ENGAGE YOUR COMMUNITY VIRTUAL WORKSHOP 

This better way to begin the new year is to create goals and engage our neighbors and community in our orchard.  The Giving Grove and Kansas City Community Gardens will host a workshop to help recruit neighborhood support for our orchard, with a tool called Asset-Based Community Development.  

The Workshop has two sessions, one on Saturday, Jan 23, 2021 at 10 a.m., the second on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at 6 p.m.

In this workshop the leader will customize an engagement strategy for our orchard based on its location within our surrounding community and discuss ways to cultivate relationships within our neighborhood.  This workshop is the first step to reach our growing goals like sharing our harvest, recruiting volunteers, educating the community, and more.

To find out how to register call the Giving Grove at 816-931-3877.

Historic Westheight Community Orchard
A partnership with
Giving Grove Westheight Park


HUGE THANKS
to Giving Grove and all of the neighbors who come out
to tend our orchard's first trees.


Stay tuned to this page for more information about upcoming events for our orchard

For more information, call 913-583-0207.
or
Email orchard@historicwestheight.org

this page last updated 1 Feb 2021