Ripe Apples
In each year from 1990 through 2004, Magic volunteers, assisted by wholesale nursery operators, Whole Foods Market in Palo Alto, and other organizational partners, have salvaged thousands of surplus fruit trees, and have distributed them through schools and charities for planting throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Together we have rescued more than 40,000 trees and passed them along to over 20,000 children in more than 50 schools, and to almost two dozen charitable organizations. These trees now grace cities from Santa Rosa to Gonzales, Richmond to Half Moon Bay.
We have prepared a written curriculum, as well as planting and care instructions, which classroom teachers or Fruition volunteers present to prospective tree recipients as a condition of their participation in the program.
In follow-up surveys we have found that 70-95% of Fruition trees successfully established after one year.
