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Piece Description
The producer is Julie Sabatier (suh-BAH-tee-ay).
Broadcast History
This was originally broadcast as part of Destination DIY's "Doing It Ourselves" episode, which has aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT Austin and a handful of other stations.
Transcript
On an unseasonably cool summer morning, a small group of volunteers is gathered in SE Portland. We’ve come together to pick fruit. This is a harvest party, organized by the Portland Fruit Tree Project. Bob Hatton is the group’s harvest coordinator.
Bob: Ninety nine percent of our harvest parties are at residential tree-owners’ homes, where they have a tree and they’re not harvesting it, whether they’re unable to because of time, money, physical ability, equipment, lack of interest and so this is kind of how the project started, coordinating groups of volunteers to come out and harvest these trees where otherwise the fruit would just go to waste.
Today’s group of about a half a dozen volunteers will harvest Shiro plums at two different sites. The plums are a yellow, Japanese variety. The first place we go to pick them is not residential. The tree is actually in an orchard that belongs...
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INTRO: OUTRO:That piece comes from Julie Sabatier (suh-BAH-tee-ay), host and producer of Destination DIY.
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Music by Jason Leonard. Engineered by Clark Salisbury.
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