About the Endless Orchard

“What if our cities become places that grow natural resources for anyone to share?”

You can collaborate in creating the largest public orchard in the world. Participate in this collective artwork by planting a fruit tree in front of your home, business, school or community centre. Take care of the tree and share it with everyone by mapping it on endlessorchard.com. The Endless Orchard collectively creates the world’s largest public artwork – a noncontiguous public fruit orchard planted, mapped, shared and cared for by everyone who participates.

  – David Burns and Austin Young / artist duo of Fallen Fruit.

Plant, map and share your fruit!

Endless Orchard, 2021, by Fallen Fruit/David Allen Burns and Austin Young

Fruit trees are generous and sweet. Fruit is a “gift” for everyone to share. A fruit tree is a natural connector between people and place. Urban neighborhoods can be transformed with this symbolic generous resource. Fruit trees connect us to the environment and seasonal changes. Fruit trees bridge communities, bringing fresh fruit to food desert neighborhoods, while helping remove toxins from the soil. It is these places in our cities and neighborhoods that border the public and private where we have learned that we find connections to everyday people, generational knowledge and cultural legacy. These are the places that we find shifts in meaning, narratives of migration and gentrification, histories ready to be discovered and shared.

LA State Historic Park Fruit Tree Adoption portraits, Fallen Fruit, 2017

Fruit trees live longer than most residents of a city.

In fact, they can be productive and sustainable for more than 40 years. We want to position this project globally and engage community with the idea that generosity begets generosity. Everyone can participate regardless of age, class or gender. It is easy to expand the Endless Orchard by planting fruit trees adjacent to or on public space. We invite artists, activists, historians and engaged citizens to plant fruit trees in publicly accessible spaces and create more Urban Fruit Trails in more cities and expand the Endless Orchard. Ideally all of this enhanced in a future version with “Augmented Reality” as a way to guide people through neighborhoods, adding stories, images, videos, text and more. In a multi-user environment with prompts on how to engage the city using prompts and markers such as fruit trees, public spaces and community landmarks. The Endless Orchard will become a socially interfaced environment gathering information on the best ways to navigate and experience city streets and public spaces.

DISCLAIMER: This site is intended for fun. It is for entertainment purposes only.

You can give a tax-deductible donation to Fallen Fruit and The Endless Orchard project

DONATE HERE

Credits

The Endless Orchard is a project created by artist duo Fallen Fruit / David Burns and Austin Young. “We are a contemporary artists duo. We make large scale art installations, public fruit parks, and plant fruit trees in public space for everyone to share. We invite you to experience your city as a fruitful place, to radically shift public participation and the function of urban spaces, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources- like fruit trees.”

Code Rodeo  (Kari Svendsboe, Zelda Lin, Jessica Westbrook, Linden Goh) has partnered with Fallen Fruit  to design and develop the Endless Orchard website and mobile app. Code Rodeo is a web and app development, social media, and digital marketing agency based in Boyle Heights. Female owned and operated and with an ethnically diverse team, Code Rodeo works with partners across non-profit and the creative industries to bring to life projects that are socially aware and experientially delightful.

Major Donors and Awards:

  • Creative Capital:  The Endless Orchard is Fallen Fruit’s Creative Capital awarded project.
  • Muriel Pollia Foundation: Fallen Fruit’s The Endless Orchard is a Foundation Awardee. 
  • Good Works Foundation: Good Works Foundation supports innovation in the arts, environmental and social action, and education. 
  • Awesome Foundation: There is awesome lurking in every corner.

Partners

  • Creative Capital
  • Casa Familiar
  • The City of San Diego
  • Los Angeles County
  • 21c Museum Hotel
  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
  • Bronx River Art Center
  • Caldera
  • CSULA (California State University Los Angeles)
  • Chung King Road Association (Chinatown, Los Angeles)
  • Code Rodeo
  • Concordia University
  • Creative Capital
  • Friends of Trees
  • Good Works Foundation
  • HOLA (Heart of Los Angeles) 
  • Kent Bellows Mentoring Program
  • l.a. Eyeworks
  • LACC (Los Angeles City College)
  • LACC (Los Angeles Conservation Corps)
  • Los Angeles State Historic Park
  • Louisville Grows
  • MRCA (Mountain Recreation Conservancy Agency)
  • Park To Playa
  • Portland Fruit Tree Project
  • The Awesome Foundation
  • The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
  • Riverside Art Museum
  • The Los Angeles County Arts Commission
  • The Muriel Pollia Foundation
  • The Rauschenberg Foundation
  • OPC (Oficina de Proyectos Culturales)
  • Open School North
  • Peninsula School
  • Portland Art Museum
  • Portland Fruit Tree Project
  • Root Pouch
  • Vallarta Botanical Gardens
  • The Wexner Center for the Arts Temple University
  • Pelican Bomb
  • A Studio in the Woods
  • Newcomb Art Museum 

Kickstarter Donors

Lauren Bon, Arnie and Traci Pitts, Catherine Oppio Matt Reitsma, Eddie V, D Kekone, Theresia Rosa Kleeman, Chad Colebank, Marne Mckimmey, Lucia Sanroman The Good Luck Gallery, Cory Dieterich, Adolfo V. Nodal, Kim Hastreiter, Olivia Beren, Debbie Coleman, Vinh Do, Robin Kahn & Kirby Gookin, Steve, Kathie Foley-Meyer, Emily Marchand, Sasha Anawalt, Deborah & Jim Long, ,Kirk Vartan C. Finley, Cheryl Petersen, Susan C Weber, Victoria Rogers, Alexandra Grant, John R. Spruill, Elliot Burke, Kenneth Hittel, Christine McKinnon, Xandra Eden, Kim Stringfellow, Darren Stein, Anne Porter, Elizabeth Roos, Tomi Hanson, Elizabeth Quinn, Holly Topping Sherry Baker, Nancy Nowacek, Lois Keller, June Kryk, Gene, Anthony Quiambao, Dana Hemenway, Enrique Castrejon, Davis Birks, Joy Silverman, Ann Lamb, Gloria Gerace, Jennifer Moon, Stephen Berens, Matthew Curtain, Lorelei Pepi, Lisa Teasley, Eric Geron, Helene Ige, Jillian Lauren, Chris Sohns, Teresa Williamson Randolph, Lorraine Molina, Dana Duff, Viet Le, Kim Darling, Brent Zerger, Bruce Yonemoto, Michele Ainza, Elise Van Middelem

Fallen Fruit is a project in partnership with the Fulcrum Arts’s EMERGE Program. Donate HERE

Monument to Sharing, by Fallen Fruit/David Allen Burns and Austin Young, 2017, Los Angeles State Historic Park.