Guerrilla grafters: splicing fruit onto a city's trees

The Guerrilla Grafters are a group of San Franciscans who believe urban trees are a precious thing to waste on simple flowers. Their goal is to graft- albeit illegally- fruit bearing branches onto non-fruit bearing fruit trees, in hopes that over time the cities ornamental trees can provide food for residents free of charge.

In this video, we follow Guerrilla Grafters Tara Hui and Booka Alon as they check up on their surreptitious grafts, perform a bit of pruning and search for their trees' first fruit.
Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/...

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[Jake Martin]

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE such a great project keep it up!

[wackkuntucky]

this is totally awesome

[syngar99]

yes you are, fuck off if thats the best response you can muster. when in doubt be a cunt eh?

[Uni Emailer]

Of course it's the people that don't pay attention that have the most stupidity to spread around. Did you miss the part where the trees have tenders to prevent such atrocities? You need to eat some fruit.

[Uni Emailer]

Jackass much?



[lettucefree]

WHOA

[LuckyGuu]

please plant 100,000 Palm Trees around SF, especially The tenerloin! Buy small palms trees and do it, just do it

[OneTearofJoy]

What a great idea! I love it!!!

[caringpro]

Fantastic!!! So you have some rodents.So import some feral cats. Big deal! Also, I dont think we ask enough of the public. They are required to cut the grass in front of their houses. they could be required to eat the fruit YUm! Or pick & donate it. Some really need it. What's the matter with us as a society? Its such a big deal to clean up some delicious fallen fruit? I want to join the guerilla grafting group in San Diego. Count me in. If I'm arrested, I'll get some writing done. InventingJoy

[John Dorig]

Love it!

[Ben Dwyer]

good work. if it continues to go well i would recommend grafting much closer to the trunk, with a view to establishing the grafted branches as the main ones, in time of course!

[l1f0reilly]

I love it!  What I can't stand are ornamental trees that make a mess but serve no purpose other than shade and oxygen. They could be providing food too!