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Win An Orchard For Your Community! The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is an award-winning international nonprofit charity dedicated to planting fruitful trees and plants to alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, strengthen communities, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water. FTPF is currently accepting applications for its 2010 orchard donation program, so if you are part of or know of a nonprofit, public park, or community garden that would benefit from donated fruit trees, please spread the word. The first 100 approved applications received by February 28 will be considered, so act fast.
Download the application here: http://www.ftpf.org/application.doc
“A seed, a sapling, a Tree that will feed the body, replenish the earth, oxygenate the air we breathe for more years than the hands that plant them will live to see. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation truly embraces the notion that love gives without expectation of reward.” -Angela Bassett, Golden Globe-winning actress
We need your help to expand our groundbreaking programs! Please consider making a tax deductale donation at http://www.ftpf.org/donation.htm
Vote with your dollars for nourished people, fruit trees, happy farmers, and a healthy planet!
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation is an organization dedicated to benefiting the Earth and its inhabitants by planting edible fruit trees. Their mission is to plant and help others plant a collective total of 18 billion fruit trees across the world and encourage their growth under organic standards.
FTPF’s goal is to plant trees that yield edible fruits, nuts, leaves, or roots—thus spreading life-sustaining ecological diversity throughout the world. Fruit trees are planted alongside other soil-building flora, native and medicinal trees and shrubs, hardwoods, and plants that contribute to sustainability. As they plant, they bring vibrant health to the community by making nutritious local fruits and vegetables accessible. Trees improve the soil, air, and attract water. Plantings are designed to follow the contours of the land, creating swales to guide water back into the earth and address erosion issues, and replenish organic matter in the soil which is so critical to the core health of the planet.
FTPF also seeks to secure land throughout the world with the sole purpose restoring native plant ecosystems with an abundance of fruit trees and plants that benefit the surrounding air, water, and soil and provide food sources for wild animals.
While their ultimate vision is one of overall ecological harmony, incorporating a great number of elements for a self-sustaining world, they chose to name themselves “The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation” to ensure that as their efforts continue, with the help of those who join them, they will be united in the goal to heal the planet and nourish future generations by planting fruit trees. FTPF provides support, resources, and guidance for those interested in planting fruit trees.
FTPF envisions a world where one can have a summer picnic under the shade of a fruit tree, breathe the clean air it generates, 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, and plant the seeds so others can eventually do the same and provide an alternative to buying environmentally-destructive, illness-causing, chemically-laden products.
