Project Pando’s Community Orchard Program
Project Pando connects people with trees to help heal the planet.
Project Pando connects people with trees to help heal the planet.
Project Pando Community Seed Collection
Help Project Pando collect native tree and shrub seeds!
Our first program, Project Pando: Community Driven Nursery engages volunteers to collect seeds from many native trees and shrubs, raise them into saplings, and give them away for free. We spent four years developing a blueprint so other communities can join this work, which we have shared for free in our book, From Wasteland to Wonder—Easy Ways to Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape. This program continues to operate and expand.
Our second program aims to connect people to trees via community orchards. Our goal is to plant 250 orchards across Raleigh, Durham, Cary, and all the other many cities that make up the Triangle. Over the long run, we hope to open a processing center where members of the community can process fruit and nuts into jams, oils, flour, and other usable food products. We hope that between the orchards, volunteers, and processing center we can help provide food resilience for the Triangle in the face of future food shortages, which were prevalent during COVID. We also hope to be able to provide nutritious food for those who are unable to afford it.
The Giving Grove
Little Orchardes. Big Impact.
Much like our first program, our plan is to share everything we learn so that you and others can join this work if you would like to do so. As always, our work is primarily funded by Leaf & Limb, though for this project we have received additional and generous funding from The Giving Grove.
If you'd like to support this work, please consider donating!