Little Orchards…BIG IMPACT!

Volunteers install fruit trees at Owenwood Farm in April 2022 to share produce with the community.

The Urban Agriculture Action Team of the Dallas Coalition for Hunger Solutions, The Giving Grove and GROW North Texas recently hosted a community orchard information session and tour to develop site partners for community fruit orchards in and around Dallas.

GROW North Texas is a non-profit that works to connect North Texans to food, farms, and community in order to create a sustainable, secure regional food system that enriches the land, encourages economic opportunity through food and agriculture, and provides equitable access to healthy, nutritious food for all residents.

The Giving Grove is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide healthy calories, strengthen community, and improve the urban environment through a nationwide network of sustainable little orchards.

Together, they are supporting neighborhood volunteers in planting and caring for fruit trees, nut trees, and berry brambles at existing community gardens, communities of faith, schools and other properties where produce can be shared with the community.

During the information session, attendees received an overview of the program, heard from new site partners preparing for fall planting and toured The Giving Grove demonstration orchard at Owenwood Farm in east Dallas.

If your organization is interested in learning more about this community orchard program and the opportunity to become a site partner, contact Geri Strong.

  ~Written and contributed to the blog by Wyonella Henderson-Greene, Coalition Specialist, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty