Growing Food Forests for Jobs, Environment, and Nutrition
Trees That Feed Foundation plants fruit trees to feed people, create jobs, and benefit the environment.
One of the farmers TTFF has helped is Jean-Marie Spratt. Her Jamaican farm is a model of agroforestry or intercropping.
TTFF has donated 600 fruit trees to Jean-Marie over the past 5 years, including breadfruit, mango, avocado, and guava. She grows spring onions, peppers, pumpkins, and other cash crops along with the trees.
Because it is a food forest, Jean-Marie can manage the farm on her own without help. When the fruits and vegetables are in season, vendors come to her farm and harvest and pay for what they want to sell in the market.
Jean-Marie’s farm is filled with butterflies and singing birds. In contrast, her neighbors’ farms look like arid scrubland. The difference? Fruit trees!
One of the farmers TTFF has helped is Jean-Marie Spratt. Her Jamaican farm is a model of agroforestry or intercropping.
TTFF has donated 600 fruit trees to Jean-Marie over the past 5 years, including breadfruit, mango, avocado, and guava. She grows spring onions, peppers, pumpkins, and other cash crops along with the trees.
Because it is a food forest, Jean-Marie can manage the farm on her own without help. When the fruits and vegetables are in season, vendors come to her farm and harvest and pay for what they want to sell in the market.
Jean-Marie’s farm is filled with butterflies and singing birds. In contrast, her neighbors’ farms look like arid scrubland. The difference? Fruit trees!
Jean-Marie Spratt’s farm in Jamaica, a model of agroforestry