Funding Available to Plant New Orchards Next Spring in Your Madison Neighborhood

Hello Friends and 'Future, Potential, and/or Aspiring Madison Fruits and Nuts',

FYI: For those of you with interest in helping create edible neighbor'woods' in Madison, consider joining us for a planning session regarding the following:

Funding Available to Plant New Orchards Next Spring in Your Madison Neighborhood

Do you want a small orchard of peaches, pears, raspberries, hickories, or other delectable fruits and nuts at a park or other public space in your neighborhood? Do you want to make fruit and nuts freely available for you and others in your community? Let’s make it happen!

Madison Fruits & Nuts -- Urban Orchards Citywide Grant Planning Session
Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00 pm at the Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin St, Room 202

Madison has been offered free fruit trees and training in their care by the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation. At the meeting, we’ll select orchard sites together and apply for the funding. Then sites will be selected nationally by internet voting. So if you can’t make the meeting, but you support an orchard your neighborhood, send us an email. We’ll let you know when the vote happens.

Contact: www.madisonfruitsandnuts.org email: madisonfruitsandnuts@gmail.com phone: Christie Ralston, Community GroundWorks at Troy Gardens – 608-240-0409