Our programs are at the forefront of a global movement towards sustainability by strategically donating 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 work has influenced governments, corporations, and households to plant more fruit trees. We are a featured partner in the United Nations Billion Tree Campaign and have been covered by major media outlets such as USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Today Show. Our programs benefit 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 have launched a series of exciting new programs and we need your help!

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Orchards for India: With your help, the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation can accomplish two important goals—to plant 10,000 fruit trees in the impoverished Indian state of Maharashtra and to become a long-term member of the GlobalGiving web community, which would be a boost to all our programs! We simply need donations from at least 50 individuals within the month of April using the following link, where you can learn more about the project: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/orchards-for-india

Home Orchard Handbook: Support FTPF by picking up a copy of our new book - The Home Orchard Handbook: A Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Fruit Trees Anywhere (Quarry Books). Written by FTPF's executive director and volunteer arborist, all proceeds benefit our groundbreaking programs. This organic guide to orcharding provides what you need to know about tree and site selection, planting techniques, aftercare, and how to get active with community projects—all in 192 beautiful, color pages full of photos and diagrams. Keep it for your family or have it sent directly to a friend or loved one. Click here to get your copy!

Make A Gift Donation: FTPF has organic t-shirts, donation certificates, and heirloom apple tree grow kits that make wonderful gifts. Support our groundbreaking work in the name of a loved one or occasion with one of these special gifts by clicking here. Or learn more about FTPF's newest program to allow businesses of all types to join the effort here!

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.

Vote For Your Favorite Community Orchard! FTPF and Dreyer's Fruit Bars are planting orchards across the country in a collaborative program called “Communities Take Root,” and your votes will determine where the fruit trees will be planted. Vote here!