Building Community, One Fruit Tree At a Time

Building Community, One Fruit Tree At a Time
A fig tree in the yard, laden with summer fruit. Olga Ilinich/Shutterstock
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A fast-growing, underground fruit economy is spreading in cities across America.

Some years ago, a young, hippyish couple knocked on my front door. They had noticed that I had fig trees in the yard, laden with summer fruit. If I wasn’t going to pick them all, they asked, could they harvest some figs?

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
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OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. Distributed by OtherWords.org.
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