[Scpg] Common Vision School Tree Planting , Harvest Rhythm | Winter 2008 | Issue #5

Wed Mar 5 06:04:12 PST 2008

   www.commonvision.org
Common Vision arrives at The Alpha Resource Center Monday March 10th. 
at 1:00 PM to plant fruit trees and do their African drumming 
ceremony.  The address is 4501 Cathedral Oaks Road about 1/2 mile 
from Turnpike and Cathedral Oaks. The phone number is 683-2145. Come 
with tools and help with the planting and join in the fun.  You will 
also get a chance to meet more of the staff and the clients of the center.

Mapquest link:
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 greetings from the road

winter 2008 | issue 5

Common Vision is happy to announce our unbelievable annual road trip 
has begun, planting 1000 fruit trees from San Diego to Sacramento 
with 27 volunteers and the world's largest vegetable oil powered 
fleet!  Fruit Tree Tour 2008 so far has traveled a collective 10,000 
miles on veggie-oil, planted 320 fruit trees, and worked with 4,500 
students in San Diego and Los Angeles.

In this letter we are humbled and excited to introduce the volunteers 
that make this tour happen and to share stories from our orientation 
and first weeks of tour. Also, you'll meet our new bus, unveiled 
after months of tireless work, and check out the community plantings 
near you that are open to your participation.

We would like to send a very special THANK YOU to the teachers who 
shared their time and skills with us during this year's orientation: 
Xylem Maloney, Ian Davidson, Jerry Price, Lauren and Jasmine of 
CoAction, Joe Sabol, Carrie Staller, and Kat Steele.
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meet the crew

This year, Common Vision received over 50 applications to join the 
Fruit Tree Tour 2008 crew.  A magnificent group of 27 got on the bus 
on the 2nd of February and trained for 2 weeks in drumming, dancing, 
green theater, how to plant a fruit tree, and how to keep your cool 
living on a tour bus with 7 other people.  This year's crew has an 
incredible breadth of talent and includes a native Chumash elder 
storyteller, a theater intern, 15 returning educators from past 
tours, and a passion for inspiration that is sure to make this year 
the most successful tour ever.

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the crew

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board our newest bio-bus
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After a grueling December and January, the pre-tour painting, 
mechanics, and construction team cast off from the Santa Rosa shop 
onto Fruit Tree Tour 2008.  Returning veteran volunteer, Jahsun 
created this music video to introduce the intricate paint job.   The 
murals share a celebration of farming traditions past, present and 
future from around the world.  Thank you to the farmers and 
traditions of earth stewardship that allow us to eat and inspire us 
to grow food!  If you look closely at the paintings you will see tree 
planters, and celebrants drawn from the pictures of Fruit Tree Tour 
participants over the years. The murals on one side of the bus 
feature peoples from across the world farming their traditional 
staple crops and the other side of the bus feature urban communities 
growing food in their neighborhoods.

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the video

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collaborations
Collaboration with local organizations is a hallmark of  Fruit Tree 
Tour. This year's tour is abundant with opportunities where Common 
Vision will support local non-profits in their missions while 
spreading Fruit Tree Tour inspiration meaningfully into these 
communities. Check out two upcoming Southern California 
collaborations and see how Fruit Tree Tour is working with community 
groups to transform landscapes and build a green movement together.

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getting grafted
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20 varieties on one fruit tree!

This year's crew was blessed to learn from the enthusiastic Joe Sabel 
of CalPoly San Luis Obispo and the California Rare Fruit Growers. We 
studied the art of grafting up to a hundred fruit varieties on a 
single tree. Fruit Tree Tour facilitators will use these skills to 
inspire students, develop school fruit tree nurseries, and greatly 
increase the varieties of fruit growing at each school.

Check out this wonderfully amusing movie created by Fruit Tree Tour 
veteran crew member, Brian Flynn. This work of art shows this year's 
crew grafting 20 different apple varieties on a single tree and 
learning how to better teach grafting to high school students on this 
year's tour. Thank you, Joe Sabol!

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to a friend
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  plant a tree
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Dedicate a Fruit Tree Planting

Would you like to dedicate a Fruit Tree Tour tree planting?  We will 
send a video thank you to the person of your choice, letting them 
know a tree was planted at an urban school in their honor. Your 
support makes a big difference in keeping the progam running. Thank you!

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a tree
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schedule
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With the growing popularity of Fruit Tree Tour, the largest crew in 
tour history, and the deepest and most diverse fruit tree spread the 
tour has ever seen, we have committed to a packed schedule with over 
35 schools and 12 community centers. Track the tour and see when 
we're coming to your community.

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the calender
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desert training
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The Common Vision crew braved the high desert of Joshua Tree to train 
in the arts of fruit tree planting, green theater, and inspiring the 
youth of California to care for the Earth. As part of a work trade 
with the Joshua Tree Retreat Center the crew planted 65 fig, olive, 
nectarine, pistachio, and pomegranate trees to the beat of ancient 
planting rhythms. Special Thanks to Lisa Wyatt's amazing photography.

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it out
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organic mechanics
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Keeping the caravan sailing

The mechanic team is busy most days and nights of the tour gathering 
grease, maintaining veggie systems, and keeping over 70 tons of 
vehicle, drum, and crew rolling from school to school.  When an old 
bus part goes it could be days or weeks before the team can source 
the part, so they have become masters of "custom modification." In 
this short video Leo reports on one of these modifications, where 
years of electric guitar playing inspired a pedal button installation 
that operates the brake lights and got the caravan back on the road 
within an hour.

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the video
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los angeles fruit forest
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A new LA fruit forest corridor

Last Week, Fruit Tree Tour joined forces with the Green Ambassadors, 
a group comprised of 60 Los Angeles high school students dedicated to 
environmental leadership, to plant 70 fruit trees in a school and 
neighborhood in Lawndale, a Los Angeles neighborhood.  After planting 
over 30 banana, fig, peach, nectarine, apple, citrus, guava, and 
avocado trees on the Environmental Charter High School's new campus, 
the ambassadors and Common Vision tree planters saw another 40 trees 
into the ground in the surrounding neighborhood.

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Vision: PO Box 2012, Willits CA 95490

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