The Orchard Project

Since 2010, The Orchard Project has planted hundreds of trees, bushes, and vines in over 100 orchards, providing direct access to local food and improving the region's landscape. Schools, community groups and urban agriculture organizations collaborate to ensure the orchards receive the proper care and maintenance they need to thrive.

In 2022, we became an affiliate of The Giving Grove, a national network of more than 847 community orchards and food forests. Since joining The Giving Grove, our community has: Planted 70 new community orchards where 2,540 fruit bearing trees and brambles are growing; Created the potential to grow 686,000 servings of fresh food annually; Expanded access to fresh food so that 105,200 people now live within walking distance of a community orchard; Established trees with the potential to sequester more than 4.4 million pounds of carbon over their lifetimes.

We are dedicated to increasing the sustainability of community gardens and urban farms, and we believe community orchards can be a powerful mechanism to start producing food in places we haven't yet reached.

Food Well Alliance is now offering two Orchard Project application opportunities, which means that we can provide more sites with fruit trees and continue to increase access to local food.

The Orchard Project plants trees at no cost to the applicant, and the program is partially funded by our annual Fruit Tree Sale. The sale offers over 50 varieties of fruit trees, vines, berry bushes for planting in Georgia's gardens and farms. Pre-sales will re-open in fall of 2026.