Fruit tree grafting could turn city streets into urban orchards
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In San Francisco, a group called the Guerrilla Grafters is turning city sidewalks into food-producing zones. What they are doing is illegally grafting fruit-tree branches on to ornamental street trees.
Imagine if something like this could be done in Vancouver.
Pedestrians could pick an apple for lunch on the way to work. Or, pears could be harvested from the streets for distribution to people in need.
With today's interest in local food and urban agriculture, and concern about food security, it would seem this is an idea whose time has come.
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Bradley
Dec 29, 2011 at 3:54pm
It would be an interesting experiment. I wonder which food trees would do best in various climates and urban environments? How would people react to seeing their food trees and bushes being sprayed at regular intervals? Would they reject the commercial methods of orchard practices in favour of a more holistic approach? Perhaps they would embrace a few resident insects, rot and scab (to name a few) instead of picture perfect produce.