Location: Leaven Community, 5431 NE 20th Ave.

Cost: FREE for all ages

Bring your own apples from home trees, or just come as you are - we'll be pressing fresh cider from hundreds of pounds of “B-grade” apples rescued this season from Portland's urban canopy. Together, we'll turn local abundance into a delicious reminder of what community care looks like in action.

The day will feature:
🍎 Community Cider Pressing – BYO apples or help us press the city’s surplus fruit!
🎃 Free Pumpkin Carving & Gourd Painting with our friends from Urban Gleaners
🎶 Live Music from HONK PDX starting at 1:00 PM
🚚 Taqueria La Merced Truck for tasty local, healthy bites
🎨 Activities with 20+ Local Nonprofits — most featured in the 2025 Willamette Week Give!Guide, which is launching November 1st

The Cider Fest is a celebration of giving back — a reminder that generosity and community thrive when we share what we have. As Portland heads into the giving season, this event honors the people, organizations, and everyday acts that keep our city thriving.

“Now, more than maybe ever, we are all in this together — supporting Portland, supporting those that give to us, and creating community out of the abundance all around us,” notes Heather, Executive Director of Portland Fruit Tree Project.

Come press, play, carve, dance, and connect — because when Portland comes together, the results are sweet.

Come visit in community with:
1000 Friends of Oregon
Active Children's Portland
AMP PDX
Animal Aid
Bradley Angle
CASA for Children
Cascadia Wild
Center for Diversity in the Environment
Civic Learning
Columbia Slough Watershed Council
Critical Bath
Equitable Giving Circle (Tamar)
ETHOS Music Center
Farmers Market Fund
Forest Park Conservancy
Freedom to Thrive
Friends of Portland Community Gardens
Friends of Trees
Friends of Tryon Creek
Girls on the Run
Grow Portland
Healthy Living Community
Human Access Project
Lala Art Studio
Bird Alliance of Oregon
Lift Urban Portland
Lines For Life
NE Tool Library
North Pole Studios
OK You
Oregon Arts Watch
Our Just Future
People of Color Outdoors
Portland Center Stage
Portland Fruit Tree Project
Portland Park Foundation
Portland Urban Beekeepers
Repair PDX
Rythym Seed Farm
Salt and Light Lutheran
Sellwood Community House
SMART Reading
St Johns Food Bank
Stone Soup PDX
Street Books
Urban Gleaners
Vegan Scouts
We Play Portland
William Temple House
Music by HONK! PDX (Brassless Chaps & Couch Brass)