Bring Fruit Trees to Native American Reservations

Dear friend,

With your help, the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation has planted more than 80,000 trees in five countries in 2019, bringing the environmental, nutritional, economic, and social benefits of fruit trees to thousands of people in diverse communities around the world. We have planted orchards at schools, public parks, gardens, native and indigenous lands, forest reserves, community, health, and rehabilitation centers, farmers cooperatives, prisons, and nonprofits working towards food and environmental justice. 

We are so grateful to all of our friends and supporters who have contributed towards our programs this year and hope you will consider making a year-end donation to help us bring fruit trees to Native Americans and other indigenous peoples around the world in 2020!

Gratefully,

The FTPF Team

Dear friends,

We are currently planning our next Trees for Tribes projects which will take place in the spring of 2020. We have received an appeal to participate in our programs from the Bay Mills Indian Community in the very north of Michigan near the Canadian border. The tribe would like to plant and distribute hundreds of fruit trees on their lands and to rural Native American families in order to support native food sovereignty and overall health and well-being. As the tribe described to FTPF:

"The Bay Mills Indian Community is a rural Native American community that is currently experiencing astronomical levels of obesity and chronic diseases, with 54% of the adult population currently being categorized as obese/overweight, as compared to the Michigan average of 31%. If given the opportunity to plant an orchard, the community will derive significant benefits related to increased access to wholesome, nutrient-dense foods, while also increasing knowledge of new planting techniques that they can duplicate at home to supplement their diets."

We want to fulfill this wish of filling their lands with fruit trees. Therefore we are asking friends of FTPF to donate today to make this project possible--every donation is a step towards ensuring native communities have access to healthy, locally grown, perennial fruit that will nourish and feed tribal communities for decades.

To a fruitful future for all native peoples,

The FTPF Team