Our Impact News & Insights Partnering with Apple to Support Black Landowners
February 15, 2023

Partnering with Apple to Support Black Landowners

Apple and The Conservation Fund are teaming up to support Black and minority landowners and community groups across the South that are working to advance sustainable forestry, achieve racial justice and improve climate resilience in their communities.

This collaboration builds upon Apple and The Conservation Fund’s previous efforts launched in 2015 to ensure a sustainable fiber supply through forest conservation.

Working alongside our longtime partner McIntosh S.E.E.D., a unique community group with whom we helped establish the first Black-owned community forest in the country, the initiative will support land retention and improved climate practices that can be scaled throughout the region on privately held land.

Through community-centric programming, workshops and trainings, the 1,148-acre McIntosh S.E.E.D. community forest is a place for landowners from oppressed and low-income communities to see and learn sustainable land management practices, while also helping equip and empower them to participate and lead conversations from which they have historically been excluded.

Learn more about McIntosh S.E.E.D.’s work and this collaboration via Apple’s video and feature story.

Photo credits (from top of page): Image courtesy of Apple

Related News & Insights

October 17, 2024

Investing in the Next Generation of Urban Conservation Leaders 

October 16, 2024

Connecting the Next Generation of Farmers to the Land

June 17, 2024

A Look at 4 of Our Spring Projects

May 31, 2024

Connectivity and Conservation in Gateway Communities

Make a Difference

Help protect America's priceless natural landscapes and ensure that we have healthy environments, places to work and play, and real economic opportunity.

Donate Today
Close up of white fungi