NPR -THE SALT
Guerrilla Grafters Bring Forbidden Fruit Back to City Trees
by Lonny Shavelson
Weekend Edition Saturday Apr 07, 2012
Fruit Fans in the San Francisco area are surreptitiously grafting (fruit) tree limbs onto fruitless trees.

excerpt:
"Spring means cherry, pear and apple blossoms. But in many metropolitan areas, urban foresters ensure those flowering fruit trees don't bear fruit to keep fallen fruit from being trampled into slippery sidewalk jelly.
But a group of fruit fans in the San Francisco Bay Area is secretly grafting fruit-bearing tree limbs onto those fruitless trees."

The entire 3 minute audio segment can be heard here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/07/150142001/guerrilla-grafters-bring-forbidden-fruit-back-to-city-trees

Thanks to Larry Hollis of the Central Coast California Rare Fruit Growers for sending this to me.
JV

John Valenzuela, Chairperson
Golden Gate Chapter, California Rare Fruit Growers
http://www.crfg.org/chapters/golden_gate/index.htm

Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens
John Valenzuela Permaculture Services
Horticulturist, Consultant, Educator
California, Hawai'i phone: (415) 246-8834
e-mail: johnvalenzuela at hotmail dot com
http://cornucopiafoodforest.com/