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Growing a Community Food Forest with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and Vitafusion
June 20, 2017 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Tri Cycle Farms is proud to announce that we have received a grant of 40-50 fruit trees from the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation! We invite the community to join Tri Cycle Farms, the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, and primary sponsor Vitafusion for a Food Forest Community Event at the farm on Tuesday, June 20th, at 9:30am! Volunteers will plant a variety of fruit trees in cleared areas around the perimeter of the farm.
Please bring a water bottle and sun protection. We will provide water and light refreshments. Samples of Vitafusion's gummy vitamin products will be available as well! We ask that all volunteers park in the gravel lot at Trinity United Methodist Church. Overflow parking is in the student lot (side lot) at Harp's on Wedington and Garland.
A free class on fruit tree planting and care presented by The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation will follow the event. Stick around and learn how to start your own orchard!
If you have any questions about this event or volunteering in general, or would like to register a group for this event, please email the volunteer coordinator, Delilah, at volunteer@tricyclefarms.org.
Thank you to all of our sponsors for this community-building event: The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, Vitafusion, The Walmart Foundation, ABI Systems, Ewing Irrigation, Hugg & Hall, Whole Foods, Ames Orchard and Nursery, Fayettechill, ArCOP, Ozarks Electric, and West Tree Company.
When you help plant a fruit tree, you are making sure that free, healthy food is available for years to come. You can visit your tree and share in the harvest year after year!
More Information about The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation:
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, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water. We strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations, at places such as public schools, city parks, community gardens, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries. Our programs help communities help themselves through the provision of orchards as long-term community assets along with training in how to care for them over time.