Guerrilla grafters: splicing fruit onto a city's trees
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Uploaded by faircompanies on Nov 13, 2011
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/guerrilla-grafters-adding-fruit-to-city-...
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Cool......I thought they might do that naturally in nature.....
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@gayraw , grafting is a fundamental of many civilizations' fruit growing practices, for the sake of cloning, consistent higher quality that is.
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If you take a seed from any fruit it can be grafted into any tree. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. David A. Puchta
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GUERRILLA HORTICULTURE! We gave up our freedom when we stopped growing our own food. I love this...taking it back....
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LOL ! They're hacking trees too, now ;-)
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often I piss at those trees sorry
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poison fruit
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I think maybe the exhausts from cars can make some fruit not very nice to eat, maybe, im not really sure! ANyone who knows? Very nice idea tho! =)
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"Watch out, we're dealing with a badass over here."
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LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE such a great project keep it up!
Rainzkul 2 months ago 5
this is totally awesome
wackkuntucky 1 month ago 3