Seattle’s City Fruit Maps Fruit Trees

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I'm interested right now in exploring the maximums and minimums of urban potential. I don't just want to look at organized activities (e.g. urban gardening with CSAs), but also at taking advantage of already naturally occurring phenomena. In most cities, fruit trees are planted because they produce beautiful flowers in the spring, fulfilling a completely reasonable desire for urban beautification, in addition to the sustainable side effect of cleaner air. The fruit is a mostly lost byproduct of the flowers -- so much so that in New York, we plant Callery pear trees that have been bred not to fruit, and no one except the very young expects to see cherries on cherry trees.

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