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The Fruit Tree Tour02-19-09 | News

The Fruit Tree Tour

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The Emmy Award-winning Fruit Tree Tour sets out on its sixth annual pilgrimage to plant Victory Orchards and perform Green Theater in California communities reeling from the recession.

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The tour will plant and perform at public schools and community centers in Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno, Sacramento, Chico, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Common Vision's mission is to cultivate ecological awareness and respect for the Earth while generating social and environmental changes towards sustainable lifestyles. We integrate concepts of ecology with the traditions, music, and art of cultures that live or have lived in harmony with the Earth. Founded in 1999, Common Vision is a solution-focused nonprofit organization, a project of International Humanities Center.
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The popular tree-planting program primarily visits under-served neighborhoods where liquor stores outnumber fresh food grocers and a disproportionate number of students rely on state-funded meal programs to meet their basic nutritional needs.

For three full 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.

Fans can follow Fruit Tree Tour on Facebook and Twitter.com/FruitTreeTour, and PayPal donations to 2009@FruitTreeTour.org.

For more information, please visit CommonVision.org.