Our programs strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations, at places such as public schools, city parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries.

FTPF’s groundbreaking mission, which has been featured in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and on The Today Show, benefits the environment, human health, and animal welfare—all at once!

Our 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.

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.

We have launched a series of exciting new programs and we need your help!

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Make A Gift Donation: FTPF has lovely certificates and organic tree grow kits that make wonderful gifts for friends and family. Support our groundbreaking work in the name of a loved one or occasion with one of these special gifts. Click here to learn more.

Fruit Tree 101: As featured on The Today Show, “Fruit Tree 101” is a program that brings orchards to schoolyards to improve school lunch nutrition. “Fruit Tree 101” is made entirely possible through the generous support of Stretch Island Fruit Co., makers of FruitaBü. Click here for more information.

Project Updates: You can breathe easier! FTPF is busy planting trees across the country. For the latest descriptions, photos, and media clips from our orchard plantings, please click here. For a list of recent media stories and quotes only, click here.

Bring a Fruit Tree Orchard to Your Community! FTPF and Dreyer's Fruit Bars are planting orchards across the country in a collaborative program called “Communities Take Root,” and your town could be next! We invite your community to apply for this exciting opportunity to receive fruit tree orchards. We donate all plant materials and our team helps install the orchard and train caretakers through free workshops. In 2010, twenty-five communities won orchards for places like public parks, food banks, nonprofit grounds, and community gardens. FTPF is currently accepting the first 125 qualified applications for the next round of the program, which involves a public online vote to select the final recipients. So act fast, download and submit the application today: www.ftpf.org/application.doc