Agriculture and art are joining forces in the City of Brotherly Love. Contemporary artist Sam Van Aken is bringing the “Tree of 40 Fruit” to Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia. This art ...

Syracuse artist Sam Van Aken is developing a tree that will bloom in pink, purple and red in the spring and bear 40 different fruits in the summer... The Gift Of Graft: New York Artist's Tree To Grow ...

WASHINGTON — As an artist, Sam Van Aken tends to work with some unusual media. While others are content to follow their vision using pencils, brushes and a canvas, he’s using weather balloons, planes ...

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NEW HARMONY, Ind. (AP) — New Harmony is the newest site of the “Tree of 40 Fruits” initiative. The part public art installation, part research project, part conservation effort, is being done by ...

Tree 75 is a nice-looking fruit tree. But in spring, it becomes a thing of wonder when it blooms pink, crimson and white. And at harvest time, the tree grows more than 40 varieties of stone fruit, ...

[Sam Van Aken] is working on a long-term project which literally will bear fruit. Forty different kinds, in fact. The Tree of 40 Fruit is a single tree, carefully grafted to produce 40 different ...

Imagine one tree that grows all the fruits you could ever desire. Well, it exists, and every year it grows peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, almonds, and more. One man's fascination with ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Plums, peaches, nectarines and cherries all grow on just one of Sam Van Aken's fruit trees. The trees blossom in a riot of red, white and pink each spring. The artist calls his ...

Blossoms of several shades will eventually erupt from branches bearing 40 different kinds of fruit on a tree located outside Sculpture Space in Utica. Syracuse artist Sam Van Aken has grown and ...