Backyard Orchard Resources
Assembled from our experience with growing fruit, nuts and berries in over 680 orchards, this collection of resources will help you successfully navigate holistic orcharding. If you would like more of this information directly in your inbox, consider subscribing to The Serving, our quarterly newsletter. Please visit our donation page to learn more about how you can help The Giving Grove continue to provide these free resources to urban orchardists.
There is more to planting a tree than digging a hole and sticking a seedling into the ground.
Careful pruning and watering during a tree’s first years create a tree that is stronger and more productive.
Use this photo guide to identify the insect, its damage, and how to deal with it holistically.
Orchard Education Video Library




Educational Resources
Thanks to the EPA and Kansas City Affiliate, Kansas City Community Gardens, we are able to provide you with an amazing educational curriculum that focuses on nutritional, environmental, and biological aspects of trees.
Online Workshop Series
Join our online workshop series to explore the art and science of urban orcharding, sustainable gardening, and community building. Learn from experts and connect with others passionate about creating thriving green spaces in their communities.
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Upcoming Workshops
Learn all about holistic orchard sprays, the ingredients that make them up and how you can use them to make healthy trees with better fruit.
Participants will learn how to activate partners through hands-on opportunities like volunteer events, use simple tools to help partners share and amplify orchard stories, and leverage existing relationships to open doors to new, mission-aligned connections.
Participants will learn how soil health connects to tree immunity, how to encourage beneficial insects through habitat and organic management practices, and when (and when not) to intervene.
Join us for a practical, idea-packed webinar on signage for community projects
This introductory workshop will guide community orchardists through the essentials of growing Asian pears in shared orchard settings.
This one-hour, beginner-friendly workshop introduces community orchard stewards to the basics of IPM with a focus on practical, low-stress approaches that work in shared, public orchard spaces.
Join us for an introductory workshop on growing pawpaws, a unique native fruit tree well-suited for community orchards.
This practical workshop focuses on how community orchardists can make the most of their harvest by preserving fresh fruit and creatively using secondary fruit.
This workshop introduces community orchardists to the role of cover crops in improving soil health, supporting beneficial insects, and increasing overall ecosystem diversity.
This workshop explores how community orchards can use ecosystem and stewardship data to strengthen fundraising and storytelling efforts.










