More than 40,000 fruit trees grow in Wiesbaden. Many orchards are decaying and the old fruits are disappearing. With them, an important habitat for native species is lost, for example the endangered wild bees. Naturefund is committed to the preservation of old and rare trees. Help us! With 5 € you get 1 m² of orchard meadow long term. With 25 € you help us to buy a tree seedling of an old fruit variety. more
Start: October 2012
End: still open
Wiesbaden and the surrounding area: In July 2014, Naturefund, together with the Orchard Club Wiesbaden, bought a piece of land in Wiesbaden-Medenbach in order to plant rare fruit tree varieties there.Our goal was to expand the existing variety garden.
purchased July 2014: 5,076 m² in Wiesbaden-Medenbach;
Naturefund has cut 800 fruit trees and replanted more than 100 new fruit trees of old varieties in Wiesbaden-Breckenheim, -Bierstadt, -Igstadt, -Kloppenheim, -Naurod, -Sonnenberg, -Rambach.
