The fruit of sharing

Here's an idea that combines the Transition movement's drive to rebuild our local foodsheds with its drive to build new economic structures. In our local neighborhood in Los Angeles, for the third year running, we are hosting a group purchase of bare root fruit trees. 

It started on a whim. I was ordering bare root fruit trees for my own yard, and thought perhaps a few others might wish to piggyback on my order. I posted it on our local Transition email loops and suddenly my order had exploded to 21 trees! 

We qualified for extra volume discounts at the supplier, and the box that arrived on my doorstep the following January was so big that it could easily have contained...

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