Help out our Laguna Honda neighbors to win a tree orchard. Oakland-based Dreyer’s Ice Cream and the nonprofit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation are donating 17 orchards to civic institutions nation wide.

 

They are bringing fresh fruit to deserving neighborhoods across the U.S. The second round of winners will be announced on July 3^rd, so get voting!

 

Even if the neighborhood you entered doesn’t win a full orchard, they will send all approved nominees a smaller, starter orchard of three fruit trees, along with instructional materials at the end of the program.

 

This request was originally discussed at West of Twin Peaks council.  The article below is reposted from the SF Examiner:

 

San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is seeking your vote as it competes with other civic institutions around the country to receive a free orchard from an Oakland-based ice cream company.

 

The prize in the competition — run by Dreyer’s and the nonprofit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation — is an orchard, an irrigation system and a groundbreaking party replete with Dreyer’s fruit bars.

 

Laguna Honda officials said their 62-acre campus in the West of Twin Peaks neighborhood was the perfect place for an orchard because fruit trees would offer patients and the hospital’s 765 disabled and elderly residents a therapeutic gardening program and organic fruit.

 

Seventeen communities will get orchards, and Laguna Honda is the only Bay Area entrant. Voting takes place at CommunitiesTakeRoot.com until Aug. 31.