Our programs, recently featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Plenty magazine, and The Today Show, 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.

	“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 Actress

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

FTPF Sets Fruitful Precedents!: In October, 2008, FTPF created the first-ever mature public fruit tree orchard in a major metro city park when it partnered with Chicago's Parks and Recreation Department to plant a full-sized fruit tree orchard at Kilbourn Park. Be sure to watch the short PBS feature on the project here .

In May, 2008, FTPF donated and planted more than 1000 fruit trees for the Havasupai Native American Tribe in Arizona. 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: FTPF continues to donate fruit trees to needy families and schools in the Tana Delta. To date, we have already distributed 5000 fruit trees in the area to provide long-term nutrition. Click here for a short video clip.

Fruit Tree 101: With the generous support of Stretch Island Fruit Co., makers of FruitaBü, organic smoooshed fruit for kids, FTPF is creating outdoor edible classrooms for students across the country in order to improve nutrition and educational opportunities for kids of all ages. Click here for more information.

Support FTPF With a Click of Your Mouse: In order to help directly offset carbon dioxide emissions, FTPF is partnering with ABSOLUT Vodka to plant fruit tree groves called "Absolut Global Cooling Zones" in metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on regions devastated by natural disasters. Click here to learn how you can help raise money for FTPF just by clicking your mouse.