Value
Maximum $4000Description
Clean the air, beautify your neighbourhood, and bring fresh fruits or nuts to your community all at the same time through our Edible Trees program. Grants up to $4,000 and other resources are available for community-based projects that provide residents with access to fresh fruit and nut trees and shrubs while making a positive difference to the Canadian environment including:
- Food security for local communities and food banks
- Providing shade
- Absorbing and deflecting solar radiation
- Improving air quality
- Absorbing and filtering water
- Creating habitat for wildlife
Eligible Applicants
Funding is available, but not limited to, community gardening groups, community housing projects, communities, schools, parks and arboretums. Tree Canada will consider publicly-accessible projects that meet the following guidelines:
- Increases equitable access to healthy food
- Strengthens communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown food resources
- Benefits the local community by providing access to the trees and their fruit by the public (i.e. food banks, volunteers, community kitchens)
- Meets the needs of the community and includes creative plans for the produce grown
- Takes place within a geographic area suitable for growing fruit and nut trees
- Protects and preserves the Canadian environment
- Assists residents in understanding and participating in environmental activities in local communities
