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Public Trees: Landscaping, or Food Source?

Posted by: Tim Halbur

3 March 2010 - 1:00pm

An art group called Fallen Fruit promotes the idea of public fruit trees for general consumption by all. But on a trip to Madrid to plant trees, the government refused their intervention, saying that trees were architecture for the city, not food.

Alissa Walker writes, "The trio—Austin Young, Matias Viegener, and David Burns, above—was invited to participate in a large-scale urban intervention that included the planting of 60 public fruit trees. But on the day before the trees were supposed to be distributed in the mostly working-class neighborhood, they received a message from the city that they hadn't expected to hear: No."

Full Story: Fallen Fruit's Tree-planting Dreams Are Uprooted In Madrid Read more: http://www.good.is/post/fallen-fruit-s-tree-planting-drea
Source: GOOD Magazine, March 3, 2010
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