Transportation
Imagine Walking Down to the Corner to Pick Your Own Apple
More cities are considering turning their street trees into food sources.
Picture talking a walk down the street and stopping at the corner to pick up an apple. Not from the corner store, but from the corner apple tree, planted on the street, right out in the public. This imaginary walk would be little more than a dream in most neighborhoods. But in Vancouver, it could become a reality.
As The Vancouver Sun recently reported, the city is looking to add more fruit- and nut-bearing trees to its urban tree inventory. As part of a plan to plant more than 150,000 trees by 2020, the city is considering making food-producing trees a major part of that effort: