A food forest needs ground before it needs anything else
Why land
What we do with it
Plant We design it the way we design a yard: basins and berms to catch the rain, mulch over bare soil, desert-adapted fruit and shade trees in guilds. Volunteers plant it in a workday or two. 
Steward Watering, mulching and pruning through the first years, then lighter care as the canopy closes. A neighborhood crew learns it alongside us so the place outlasts any one of us. 
Feed the neighborhood The harvest goes to the people who live around it, and the surplus moves through Homegrown Foods to pantries and partners across the Valley.
Ways to give
An outright gift You deed the land to Homegrown Foods. The simplest route, and the one with the clearest tax picture. A bargain sale You sell it to us below its appraised value. The difference between the two is treated as a gift. A conservation or agricultural easement You keep the land and give up the right to develop it, so it stays growing food. A gift of the easement, not the ground. A long lease at no cost You keep title and let us plant and steward it for a term long enough for trees to matter, usually twenty years or more.
The tax side
What happens next
A conversation Tell us about the land below. We call to hear what you have in mind, what you want to keep, and what the neighborhood is like. A site walk We visit, look at the soil, the water, the sun and the access, and tell you honestly whether it can grow food and what it would take. Our board's review Homegrown Foods' board looks at the site, the costs of stewarding it and the shape of the gift, and we come back to you with a yes and a plan, or a clear no.
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