Emmy
Award-winning Fruit Tree Tour plants
Victory Orchards in hard-hit California communities
CALIFORNIA
- The Emmy
Award-winning Fruit Tree Tour sets out on its sixth
annual pilgrimage to plant Victory Orchards and perform Green
Theater in California communities reeling from the recession.
Decked
out with rooftop solar arrays and converted to run on 100% recycled
vegetable oil, Fruit
Tree Tour's fleet of bio-powered busses-the largest
known caravan of its kind-carries over 1000 bare root fruit
trees, 75 drums, and an all-volunteer
army of 25 modern-day Johnny Appleseeds.
The tour will plant and perform at public schools and community
centers in Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles,
Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno, Sacramento, Chico,
and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Fruit
Tree Tour's Green Theater uses larger-than-life puppets in a
time-traveling tale that explains climate change to kids and
teaches them the simple science behind breaking the cycle of
fossil fuel addiction.
The popular tree-planting program primarily visits under-served
neighborhoods where liquor stores outnumber fresh food grocers
and a disproportionate number of students rely on state-funded
meal programs to meet their basic nutritional needs.
For
three full months, the cramped caravan serves as both home and
office for a committed crew of arborists and educators who are
fed by donations from local organic farms and markets along
the way.
Since first setting out six years ago, Fruit
Tree Tour has planted thousands of fruit trees with
tens of thousands of low-income students from Sacramento to
San Diego.
Fans
can follow Fruit Tree Tour on Facebook
and Twitter.com/FruitTreeTour,
and PayPal donations to 2009@FruitTreeTour.org.
For
more information, please visit CommonVision.org.
Crew
members are available for interviews by phone and in person.