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 crew of 25 people, ready to change the world.
Fruit Tree Tour, the award-winning urban eco-education program, has set out on its sixth annual pilgrimage to plant Victory Orchards and perform green theatre shows in low income Californian communities. The tour will plant and perform at public schools and community centres around the area, using permaculture principles.
The green theatre shows use larger-than-life puppets in a time-traveling tale that explains climate change to children and teaches them the simple science behind breaking the cycle of fossil fuel addiction. The popular tree-planting program primarily visits under-served, low-income neighbourhoods where off-licences outnumber fresh food grocery stores and a disproportionate number of students rely on state-funded meal programs to meet their basic nutritional needs.
For three 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. You can follow their current tour here.
Melissa Corkhill is the editor of The Green Parent magazine, mother of two and author of the book Green Parenting
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