Upper Valley Apple Corps

At A Glance

Location: 

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Climate Change & Energy

Active since:

2012

Core volunteers:

7

Community Size:

9,952

  • Pear Harvest
  • Apple Harvest
  • Pruning workshop
  • Sauce Making

Our Purpose

Upper Valley Apple Corps aims to foster ecosystems resilience and solidarity economies by planting and stewarding free-for-the-picking fruit and nut trees on public lands across the Upper Valley. The long-term vision of Upper Valley Apple Corps is to provide every neighborhood in the Upper Valley with a thriving, self-sustaining community orchard that would promote intergenerational connectivity, ecosystems benefits, and active participation in feeding oneself and others. Apple Corps emerged from the 2010 Raspberry Revolution festival, at which community volunteers created a berry park and planted over 75 raspberry plants. The huge success of the festival made clear that our community was hungry for ways to transform the public landscape and our relationships to it in ways that foster mutual support and community resilience; Apple Corps was born in response to this need.Today, Apple Corps cares for over 80 plantings across the Upper Valley, from Tunbridge down to Windsor.