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| Photo credit: Tree of 40 Fruit / Sam Van Aken |
Sam Van Aken is a Associate Professor; Program Coordinator, Art, Design, and Trans media at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Professor Sam Van Aken grew up on a family farm in Reading, Pennsylvania. In year 2008 when he grafted vegetables together to create amazing plants for his Eden exhibition, and after that when he started to work on the hybridized fruit trees that would become the Tree of 40 Fruit.
This trees produce an incredible harvest of plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and almonds, including many you've likely never seen before.
Sculpted through the process of grafting, the Tree of 40 Fruit blossom in variegated tones of pink, crimson and white in spring, and in summer bear a multitude of fruit. Primarily composed of native and antique varieties the Tree of 40 Fruit are a form of conversation, preserving heirloom stone fruit varieties that are not commercially produced or available.
Watch The Video Of Van Aken Introduces About The Tree Of 40 Fruits
Source Of Video | www.new.livestream.com Source Of Text | http://www.treeof40fruit.com
