Whose fruit is it anyway? HI

Fruits of labor - Hawaii News - Starbulletin.com:
A neighbor's fruit tree canopy extends significantly into our yard and creates an abundance of work and green waste for us to handle. Often more of the canopy is overhanging our yard (and other neighbors') than the trunk owner's yard. For more than 20 years, the tree owner concurred that the neighbors owned the fruit over their yards. But the owner recently sold, and the new owner seems to feel differently. Any 'right of way' or 'common law' created by long-term previous activity? Who is entitled to the fruit that grows over onto our yard? Considering we have to do the cleanup, it would seem that we should be entitled to some, if not all, of the fruit.

Program provides technical assistance to backyard fruit tree growers, connects harvests with food banks; Seattle, WA

Home & Garden Volunteers help homeowners with fruit trees Seattle Times Newspaper:
Even in a typical year, the plum tree in Monica and Heidi Risse's front yard spawns more plums than they can use.
Plums have gone to their Beacon Hill neighbors and to family. Monica used to take bags of them to work. The sisters have made plum sauce, attempted oven-dried plums and have plans to make plum jam. But this year, by their estimate, there are 20 times as many plums as usual.
Not bad for a tree they barely tend to. So when they heard about City Fruit, they jumped at the chance not only to have their fruit harvested but to learn how they could be better tree stewards.

Miami 30% UTC cover goal means free fruit trees and technical assistance for residents; Miami, FL

Miami gives away fruit trees - Central Miami - MiamiHerald.com
Miami Herald staff Report
Miami is giving away 750 fruit trees from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Robert King High Park, 7025 W. Flagler St.
The popular fruit trees retail for about $25 and up, but city residents didn't have to shell out a dime.
Residents interested in the trees that include mango, tamarind, avocado and lychee will be eligible to receive up to two 4-foot trees per household on a first-come, first-serve basis. They have to present proof of residency, such as a driver's license or ID card with a city of Miami address and a utility bill with a city of Miami address.
Tree experts will be on-site to teach hands-on how to plant and care for the trees. Educational material about avoiding ``hatracking'' (also known as improper pruning that removes more than 25 percent of the tree's canopy) will also be available.

Project Canopy recognizes champion tree, gives grant for urban fruit orchard; Madison, ME

Whopper poplar at Lakewood
BY DOUG HARLOW
Staff Writer

06/22/2009

MADISON -- Tomatoes.

For the past few years, that is what Madison has been known for, with its massive greenhouses at Backyard Farms.

Now it's trees.

"I think it's kind of a funny thing, we grow tomatoes and we grow trees," said the town's Economic Development Director Joy Hikel.

The town of Madison has been recognized by the Maine Forest Service's Project Canopy as having the biggest balsam poplar tree in the state and is the recipient of a Project Canopy grant for a fruit orchard in the downtown business district.

There it is, right there on the 2009-10 Maine Register of Big Trees Web site: Poplar, balsam, Madison, Maine.

Green Miami gets fruity with UTC efforts; Miami, FL

Free Fruit Trees | Transit Miami

Published by Tony Garciaon June 12, 2009in Green Miami Campaign.
With talk of peak oil imminent, I thought it was well timed that the City of Miami is hosting a fruit tree giveaway to City residents tomorrow, Saturday June 12th. Considering the increased expense of shipping agricultural products across the world my bet is that we’ll need to rely on sources of food close to home, and how much closer can you get than a fruit tree in your own yard!

The Second Fruit Tree Giveaway is part of the City’s Green Miami Campaign.
The vision for the Green Miami Campaign is to restore and enhance the City of Miami’s tree canopy into a thriving urban forest that provides multiple aesthetic and environmental benefits. The long-term goal is to increase the City of Miami’s tree canopy to 30% by 2017.

Killing pest on residential citrus trees is new part of strategy to control grape-killing Pierce's Disease; Fresno, CA; 4/17/09

Fresno County ag officials escalate battle against a growing pest ...Fresno Bee - Fresno,CA,USA
To help combat the pest in urban areas, county and state officials are placing a greater emphasis on killing it in residential citrus trees.
Treatment will involving burying a tablet of the insecticide — CoreTec — under the tree's canopy. The chemical will be taken up through the tree roots and kill the sharpshooter once it feeds on the plants new growth.
Francone assures the public that there is no risk in eating oranges harvested from trees that are treated.
The county is also taking a new approach in how it treats an infested site.
In previous years, county crews would apply the insecticide Merit to the front and back yards of a home and the two adjacent front yards.
Now, once a site has been identified, workers will treat all host plants within a 100-yard radius.

City celebates 400th anniversary with planting of 400 native and heritage fruit trees; Kilkenny,Ireland; 3/11/09

Tree-planting project comes to fruition Kilkenny People - Kilkenny,Ireland
ONE of the first and most visible projects of the Kilkenny 400 celebrations started to take shape last week with the planting of fruit trees in the Castle Park and in several schools.
The first of the 400 fruit trees, which are being planted by Future Proof Kilkenny and other local groups, were put into soil on Wednesday at Gaelscoil Osraí in Loughboy

Public-private partnership to increase UTC on private property and mitigate GHG; Courtenay, BC, Canada; 2/6/09

Nursery, city promoting treeplanting projectComox Valley Record - Courtenay,British Columbia,Canada
River Meadow Farms Nursery and the City of Courtenay are partnering in a project they hope will see residents plant 1,000 trees.
Council authorized staff to enter into a partnership whereby the nursery will sell residents trees at a discounted rate to plant on residential property in an effort to increase the urban tree canopy and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the city Monday.
This tree-planting initiative is a recommended action of the city’s Corporate Climate Action Strategy.
The residential tree planting partnership is proposed to launch this March as the 1,000 Trees program.
The goal of the program is to have residents plant 1,000 trees, which would equate to a two-tonne annual GHG offset or a 160-tonne offset through the estimated 80-year carbon-removing life of the trees, noted Henderson and Wiwchar.