Support the Orchard

The Corner Orchard is a no till flower farm and ADA responsive space.

We need your help to build it.

Neighbors at every physical and intellectual ability are welcome. We plan to grow food and joy for our Afro Latinx neighborhood from a variety of peppers, beans, squash and herbs to trees and cut flowers.

We will host continuing education, school events and be a cornerstone for cradle to cradle land use by growing and composting on the same site.

You can join this birth story with a financial donation or in-kind support.

The land is enfolded in the heart of an historically Black community called Stop Six in Fort Worth, Texas.

It was purchased by ex NFL linebacker David Howard almost two decades ago with the intent of building a stronger Black Fort Worth. After discussing urban farming as a possible land use with community members including Ples Montgomery IV of the Veggie Project, an idea was born for supporting Stop Six residents with a combined vision and unique approach.

The Corner Orchard is the product of David and Ples’s shared love for food justice and David’s passion for supporting adults with disabilities after witnessing firsthand the carnage of professional sports.

The CO will not only provide food and herbs for a neighborhood deep within a food apartheid zone through a CSA program, but will be a safe space for solidarity, skill-sharing, creativity and mindful activity regardless of intellectual or physical capacity.

2025 is the birth year of the farm, orchard and greenhouse. With our first season in operation, we begin our continuing adult education program and CSA. 2026 and beyond we see ourselves hosting events for the larger community and expanding the farm with beekeeping.

Our people are the center of our work. There are few to no safe, well-lit and maintained natural spaces. Food apartheid has stolen the markets and stores that used to dot our streets, and there are only three limited grocery markets in the entire zip code. It is considered a food desert.

Today we host mainly liquor stores, empty churches and vacant lots. The Corner Orchard will be the first of its kind being a space that simultaneously supports the body and mind. There is a need for safe places for our community to find joy regardless of their income or proximity to more resourced neighborhoods. The safety that we cultivate will be an even more powerful harvest than the produce that we will sell, share and eat with our community.