Portland Fruit Tree Project
Mission
Our mission is to increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.
We envision joyful communities that see every fruit tree as an abundant resource which contributes to a just food system and enhances the well-being of people, community networks, habitat, and our changing climate.
Bottom Line for Portland
Donating to PFTP is a tangible, joyful, way to increase food access and climate change in your neighborhood. You've likely seen - or have - a fruit tree that has fruit that is wasting instead of getting eaten. Your support helps plant and care for culturally meaningful fruit trees in low canopy/low food access neighborhoods, care for established fruit trees around the city, so that the fruit that grows is healthy and reachable, and harvest and share fruit from trees producing more than one household can use - benefiting people experiencing food insecurity through culturally responsive partnerships.
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“Kiwis grow on vines? Mason bees sleep most of their lives? Figs produce a natural latex? There have been a lot of cool surprises and I have enjoyed learning about them!” High school orchard intern on what has been exciting and surprising to learn with Portland Fruit Tree Project
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We partner primarily with organizations led by communities of color and seek to follow the lead of those groups while providing resources we are uniquely qualified to offer. PFTP leverages our long history in Portland, often working with privileged homeowners, to educate on our city's racist history and injustice in the food system and urban canopy - a position that allows us to advocate in ways that try to take that pressure off of the communities who have been doing that work. Everything we do is done to create a more just and equitable food and forest system in our community, using fruit as a sweet hook.
Incentives
🍕 Donate $35 or more and get a half a pie from our friends at Dove Vivi Pizza, while supplies last!
🌱 Donate $40 or more and get two 50 milligram packs of fruit-infused CBD gummies from Wyld CBD, while supplies last!
🛒 Donations made in the month of November will be matched by New Seasons Market up to $2500!
- 🟢 Any donor under 36 will be entered to win $300 credit from Henry Rodriguez at Oddball Tattoo Studios in the Clinton hood.
- 🍸 During the week of 12/11 - 12/18, anyone that donates $100 or more is entered to win a SE date night - A $40 tasting gift card at New Deal Distillery for their SE Portland tasting room and bottle shop location and a $50 fun card at KingPins bowling and family entertainment center!
- 🪩 Anyone that donates $300 or more during the campaign will be entered to win a one night stay, and valet parking, at The Nines luxury hotel (adjacent to Pioneer Courthouse Square, catch a show from the rooftop deck!) in downtown Portland. ($250 Value)
📚 Anyone that donates on Big Books Day (11/26/24) will be entered to win 2 tickets to The Moth Mainstage on 12/10/24 at the Schnitz, donated by Literary Arts!
Portland Fruit Tree Project is in the Hunger category which is sponsored by New Seasons Market.
They're a little-sized organization with activities in Clackamas Co., Multnomah Co. and Washington Co.