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We provide free produce to the local Douglas County food system through community meals, local food banks, and pantries as well as open community access to a “take what you need leave some for others” harvest method in our orchard.

08/14/2025

Were you thinking to yourself today about how much you'd love to move some mulch in an orchard? Sure enough, us too!

Our friend Dirt Deason has done the big part of the work and we now need some volunteers to move the piles near the trees, around them and the hard to mow areas. You can do a single tree or them all. We'd love the help... just send us a message!

07/16/2025

Can you believe the orchard is approaching 5 years old? Our dream born during the pandemic in the fall of 2020 now consists of almost 90 fruit trees plus other fruiting varieties of plants. As the orchard matures to full production in a couple of years, we're going to need more and more help with all aspects. If you have any time(no commitment required, minimal time is great) we could use your help and insight. Please sign-up here and let's talk about how you can get involved. ANY individual in the community will be able to harvest from the trees...the most common question we get.
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04/10/2025

Our raised bed soil was delivered this morning and we are filling beds this evening! We have shovels and wheelbarrows ready to go. Come join the crew if you have some free time this evening!

AND if you want to stay up to date on upcoming garden events and volunteer opportunities sign up here:

03/28/2025

We have new raised beds in the greenhouse!!

We will be out from 11-2 tomorrow filling these with mulch and compost to get ready for our first round of seed starts. We need your help! Come join us and check out what we have growing 🌱

AND if you want to stay up to date on upcoming garden events and volunteer opportunities sign up here: https://forms.gle/nq7iR7jQmhwSmhDT7

11/16/2024

Thank you Alpha Delta Pi for volunteering your time and hard work doing fall clean up at the Little Prairie Donation Garden and Orchard.

11/15/2024

We're thrilled to announce that we've been awarded a $8,332 Douglas County Community Foundation Livewell Community Wellness Grant for the upcoming year. This grant will go towards our donation garden and orchard enhancement project that will focus on allowing more public accessibility features like park benches in the orchard, materials for our new greenhouse, a new 'you pick' blackberry patch and a lot of other great things coming to our project in the upcoming year. We're so appreciative of DCCF's support of the donation garden and orchard over the years and are looking forward to getting these new projects going strong and building on what we've established.

Pictured at the grant awards ceremony breakfast this morning are two of our managers, Jordan Bickford and Darin Brunin along with Common Ground Program Manager, Umut Bayramoglu.

11/09/2024

A big thank you to the KU Glee Choir for coming to help us mulch and prep the orchard for winter!

10/27/2024

A big thank you to KU Alpha Epsilon Pi for coming out to help in the orchard and donation garden today! We got a lot done.

If your community or university organization would like to setup a volunteer event, just send us a message!

10/24/2024

Check out this beautiful banana almond jujube cake that our wonderful orchard friend Lily made from the jujubes harvested recently from our orchard. We still have a few jujubes left if you'd like to try some out!

10/20/2024

We have a few pounds of jujubes(Chinese red dates) recently picked from the orchard available for pickup, if you could use them. Take some or all... just message us.

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Nigel Drive
Lawrence, KS
66049

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