When an art teacher, the son of a farmer decides to mix these two aspects of his life, it gives a tree, halfway between the work of art and the scientific revolution, capable of producing 40 different varieties of fruit?
Sam Van Aken is an art professor at Syracuse University in New York State in the United States. He is also the owner of an old orchard in which ancient species of fruit trees, although aging, have withstood the ravages of time. His creativity coupled with his "agricultural" skills allowed him to have an idea whose realization plunges us straight into a fantastico-futuristic tale. Sam Van Aken created a fruit tree capable of giving 40 species of fruit, from plum to cherry, apricot, peach or nectarine. There are only stone fruits and only old varieties. It took him 5 years of work to achieve this result worthy of an impressionist canvas. 5 years during which he made cuttings from a plum tree trunk, reputed to be more solid than the other species he wanted to preserve. On this trunk, he meticulously grafted branch by branch all the species he wanted to preserve, taking care to anticipate the harmonies of colors during the different flowering and fruiting. A magical result that seems to come from a cross between a Monet and a Miyazaki. _NB
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