San Ysidro campus is a stop on Fruit Tree Tour
SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
Last week, the kids at La Mirada Elementary School in San Ysidro got a visit from a big ol’ bus full of bare-root fruit trees and a crew that helps plant the trees at schools and teaches students, staff and community members about caring for them.
“It was so wonderful,” said Mariana Osuna, wellness coordinator for the San Ysidro School District. “They are a group of volunteers who have driven up and down the state of California planting fruit tree orchards.”
School district says no to fruit trees
SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
by Maureen Magee
Visiting ecology group plants for shade instead
Johnny Appleseed apparently can't be trusted in San Diego.
A caravan of earth-loving ecology educators launched a statewide fruit tree-planting tour at Clark Middle School in City Heights yesterday.
Traveling in 30-year-old school buses that have been hand- painted and run on vegetable oil, the environmentalists will visit 20 cities and plant 1,000 fruit trees in hopes of teaching urban students about sustainable ecology and the benefits of eating locally grown food.
But San Diego students will get shade instead of fruit.
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