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2025 Orchard Brigade is on!
Sign up to help prune trees this winter in Louisville's community orchards

We are pitching in to take care of Louisville's community orchards. No experience is necessary -- leaders will demonstrate proper techniques and volunteers will learn basics of how to maintain fruit trees! We will provide tools, but if you have your own, please bring them. We can use sharpened loppers, pruners, pruning saws,  and some ladders.  Winter is the best season for pruning fruit trees, so dress for the weather :) You can even bring a mug or a thermos of a hot bev to share. These are fun events to build community and learn more about our community orchards.
Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up for a date in January or February.
Cracking nuts is noisy and dusty!


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I'm part of the Louisville Urban Agriculture Coalition
...check us out: https://foodinneighborhoods.org/grow/

Kentucky's Nuts
I wrote a blog post for the Urban Agriculture Coalition- check out my notes & photos of almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts and black walnuts!



 Workshops: Urban Foraging is Fun!

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Cracking those nuts!
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Almonds ready to harvest
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Transforming a few of Louisville's vacant lots into an urban garden & orchard...


Lots of Food has transformed 5 contiguous vacant lots into a 1/3 acre market garden and orchard.

 In 2014 I planted the first trees, fruits, herbs, and vegetables on this lovely fertile land  in Louisville's Portland neighborhood.

Lots of Food purchased vacant lots from Louisville's Land Bank Authority, the agency that holds foreclosed vacant property and makes it available to citizens for redevelopment. Find the link on our You Can Do It page.

Here's a slideshow of what has been happening at Lots of Food:
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