The USDA grant is focused on providing disease-resistant fruit trees to local residents.

A Pittsburgh nonprofit received a $268,297 USDA grant to distribute disease-resistant fruit trees to underserved neighborhoods, reports Matt Enright for Lancaster Farming.
“Among the nonprofit’s programs are community planting and giving away trees to residents. Tree Pittsburgh has a tree nursery in Pittsburgh where they grow about 30,000 trees that will be planted around the city,” Enright adds.
The grant is focused on adding disease-resistant trees to the organization’s inventory and making them available to disadvantaged communities. “Tree Pittsburgh will start growing the trees in the fall and begin distributing them in the spring, Palomo said. They plan to produce around 3,000 trees and shrubs during the three-year grant and work with 50 orchards and gardens during that time.”
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