{"id":14228,"date":"2012-03-01T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2012-03-01T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:32:43","slug":"growing-fruit-trees-boston-tree-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/growing-fruit-trees-boston-tree-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Fruit Trees as Community Activism: the Boston Tree Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEDxBoston - Lisa Gross - Civic Fruit\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ZEfvrgB78E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just over a year ago, I came across a new <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/07\/urban-agriculture-success-stories\/\">urban agriculture<\/a> effort, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostontreeparty.org\">Boston Tree Party<\/a>. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2011\/02\/the-boston-tea-party-urban-agriculture\/\">the post I wrote for SUNfiltered<\/a>, I noted that founder Lisa Gross and colleagues saw their efforts as much broader than simply planting apple trees: they saw their efforts as broad-based community activism aimed not only at environmental restoration and local food production, but even economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>In the year since that post, the Tree Party has <a href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkbetter.com\/2011\/07\/18\/boston-tree-party-growing-fast\/\">continued to grow<\/a>; with Spring approaching, they&#8217;re preparing for another years of &#8220;Apple Corps-ing.&#8221; In mid-Febuary, the organization released its call for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostontreeparty.org\/2012\/02\/sign-up-to-join-the-party-and-become-a-tree-planting-delegation-this-spring\/\">Tree Planting Delegations<\/a>, which take on the responsibility for planting and caring for two apple trees, as well as harvesting the fruit they&#8217;ll eventually produce.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know more? Check out Lisa&#8217;s TEDxBoston presentation above, and spend some time on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostontreeparty.org\">the organization&#8217;s website<\/a>. If you decide to put together a delegation, let us know. And, of course, if you know of similar efforts in other places, we&#8217;d love to know about them, too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22452330@N00\/1518693560\/\">pipnstuff<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planting apple trees as a political statement? 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