2024-12-22T06:15:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150069626/guerrilla-grafting-fruit-activists-turn-city-trees-into-free-food-sources Alexander Walter 2018-06-18T15:28:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1b/1b6dedb73724081cf808704efc699e9e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>After pothole gardeners and pavement crack fillers, the Guerilla Grafters are the next urban hacking collective that wants to make streets a better places for everyone. The collective sees grafting branches of fruit trees onto trees in the streets as an opportunity to provide free access to food to urbanites. The process of adding a small branch to an existing city tree is considered vandalism. However, that doesn&rsquo;t stop the Guerilla Grafters [...].</p></em><br /><br /><p>"The Guerrilla Grafters are not welcomed by everyone," writes Doris Tielemans for <em>Pop-Up City</em>&nbsp;about this branch (no pun intended) of&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/280153/fruit-activism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fruit Activism</a>. "Most trees in cities don&rsquo;t grow fruit for a reason."</p>