| The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is a unique nonprofit charity dedicated to planting edible, fruitful trees and plants to benefit needy populations and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water.
Our programs, recently featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Hindu, and Plenty magazine, strategically plant orchards where the harvest will best serve the community for decades to follow, at places such as public schools, homeless shelters, drug rehabs, low-income areas, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries. FTPF's projects benefit the environment, human health, and animal welfare—all at once!
FTPF's goal is straightforward: to collectively plant 18 billion fruit trees for a healthy planet (approximately 3 for every person alive). Fruit trees heal the environment by cleaning the air, improving soil quality, preventing erosion, creating animal habitat, sustaining valuable water sources, and providing healthy nutrition.
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“The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation is single-handedly taking responsibility for the future of our Earth! It is vital and absolutely essential to support this fantastic non-profit organization!”
Bryce Dallas Howard
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We envision a place where one can have a summer picnic under the shade of a fruit tree, breathe the clean air it generates, listen to the songbirds it attracts, and not have to bring anything other than an appetite for the healthy fruits growing overhead. A world where one can take a walk in the park during a lunch break, pick and eat a variety of delicious fruits, plant the seeds so others can eventually do the same and provide an alternative to buying environmentally-destructive, illness-causing, chemically-laden products.
FTPF has planted thousands of fruit trees across planet and provided advice and training for others to do so as well. We have launched a series of exciting new programs and we need your help!
latest news
Project Updates: For descriptions, photos, and media clips from our latest orchard plantings, please click here. For a list of recent media stories and quotes only, click here.
FTPF Helps Create One-Of-A-Kind Town: In May, FTPF donated and planted more than 1000 fruit trees for the Havasupai Tribe in Arizona. Each tribal family was offered at least 5 trees for their backyards. The town is the first in the world where every resident has abundant access to their own fruit trees and community orchards. Click here for a short video clip about the project and support us today!
FTPF Plants Thousands of Trees in Kenya (Spring, 2008): FTPF continues to donate fruit trees to needy families and schools in the Tana Delta. Click here for a short video clip.
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