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Planting fruit trees is part of hurricane recovery

Nov 11, 09 | Comment
"If you are going to plant a tree, why not plant a tree that is going to provide shade, improve the air, water and soil, provide life-giving nutrition and enrich folks?"
- Cam Akin, FTPF executive director

Listening to Cam Akin, one gets the impression that fruit trees can save the world.

Akin is executive director of the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, a California-based charity that has brought its gospel of resurgence through fruit trees to impoverished areas around the world.

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