My Nonprofit Reviews

Aside from the ridiculous amount of junk mail you'll get if you join, or the "free" trees that are never the ones you asked for , or are dead, with your donation: they do have a business where they sell trees. While some trees are actually what they advertise, many are not. I ordered specific cherry and apple tree species back in the day, and what I found out too late was they are wild apple and cherries and not the Bing, Red Jonathon etc that I purchased. Eventually I got my money back- sort of. All the care I put into these trees over the years just to find out they weren't what I purchased, I can never get that expense back. They tried to blame their nurseries for the "mix up", which happened over and over ( I at first gave them the benefit of the doubt and asked for a replacement for my plum. To this day the replacements have never fruited and I'm not entirely convinced it even is a plum tree.) Many others were scammed too, just google and scroll past all the hits from ADF website ( they probably do this so you don't find posts from people who have been scammed, keep going until you find them. ) As another person pointed out here, the CEO is making a lot of money and using wild trees in place of the cultivars I purchased.
They might actually do some good work planting trees, not sure if this is to throw people off or if they really care about trees. I suggest donating to Audubon, WWF or Sierra club and buy your trees from Starkbros, they guarantee your purchase. So it's not just about the "free" trees you're supposed to get with your donation, it's also the spam you'll get in your mailbox trying to get you to purchase trees that may or may not be what they say they are!