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The Bainbridge Island Fruit Club

Join us for our monthly meetings at Grange Hall on the 4th Thursday of the month, unless we meet at an orchard.

We publish event information on our Facebook group page and also send event info to our email list. You can ask to be added to the email list using this website’s contact form.

The club’s primary objective is to bring together new and experienced fruit growers who will promote the science, cultivation, and pleasure of growing fruit-bearing trees, vines, and plants in the home landscape. Local chapters of the Western Cascade Fruit Society (WCFS), like ours, share information through education, fruit shows, orchard tours, meetings, workshops, and publications.

Bainbridge Island Fruit Club members have also spent a decade reviving the orchard of 70 apple, pear, plum, and walnut trees at the publicly accessible Johnson Farm by grafting over 30 apple varieties onto ten trees. The Johnson Farm orchard provides an ideal opportunity to show how old orchards can be restored through simple pruning and grafting techniques to host numerous unique varieties. The club’s efforts also build upon the current food resilience efforts on the island by producing varieties that can mature at different times of the year and which have longer storage periods.

In September 2025 BIFC installed five interpretive signs explaining the orchard’s restoration, pruning and grafting techniques, the role of diversity in orchard health, and the trees’ transition as hosts of more productive modern and heirloom varieties.

In the club’s inaugural October Harvest, BIFC delivered some 130 pounds of the orchard’s apples and pears to the Helpline House food bank as part of Bainbridge Prepares’ Food Resilience effort.

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