Our intention behind the Urban Orchard project is to provide a place of beauty and peace that includes fruit-bearing trees to offer fresh organic produce to a low-income blighted neighborhood in the Klondike area of Memphis. There will be many fruit bearing trees and bushes planted in a landscape that is designed in a park-like setting complete with a gazebo, benches and arbor. The orchard will take place on a purchased vacant lot that was once a plot filled with trash and overgrown weeds. This is a community effort pushed by the Midtown Mosque, AMIN Center and other groups interested in improving city neighborhoods.

We hope that the outcome will beautify the neighborhood while providing fresh healthy fruit to a community that sits in a food desert. We want to see people feel safer and more at peace in their neighborhood.