Farmer says of his childhood: "I'd like to be able to say that when I was young I lived in a trailer park, picked fruit with Haitians, got interested in migrant farmworkers and went to Latin America.
Residents will be welcome to forage in the forest, a 7-acre plot — adjacent to a city park — featuring fruit and nut trees, a pumpkin patch and dozens of berry bushes.
Others get drunk on the moonshine they buy at cigarette stands and stumble around Sidi Bouzid's town center, near the mosque where Mr. Bouazizi sometimes parked his fruit cart.
A Kalamazoo College dropout, as a young man he worked as a busboy, bellman, valet car parker and fruit-market vendor.
Though minuscule by agribusiness standards, the new fruit park is a cause for celebration, he said.
Many elderly people died; steel train tracks buckled; in one Melbourne park a thousand fruit bats fell dead from the trees.
HAVANA — Wandering into a small park shaded by fruit trees in Old Havana, I was surprised to come across a bronze bust of Hans Christian Andersen.
To kick off the opening of the fruit park here, which consists of 27 trees planted on the site and 60 more distributed to residents, the group held one of their ritual public "fruit jams," in which participants gather around a portable stove to make never-before-seen concoctions from whatever surplus fruit is available.
The award for the week's best dressed goes not to any pedestrian, as stylish as the ones here were, but to Mother Nature, decked resplendently throughout town: magnolias at the Frick Collection and Central Park, forsythia along the park's transverses, fruit trees on the streets and hyacinths in Bryant Park.
There was Schanna Gayden, a 13-year-old, an honor roll student and star basketball player who was killed in gang crossfire in June 2007 as she walked across the park to buy fruit from a street vendor.
