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 ...

Imagine dozens of different kinds of fruit all hanging from a single tree. It's the dream of a Syracuse artist who is building such a tree, branch... Aug 15, 2014 — Imagine dozens of different kinds ...

Artist Sam Van Aken grew up on his family’s farm in Douglassville, Pa. As a result, his favored medium to create art is a process called tree grafting. It involves taking a scion, or a desired piece ...

Peaches, apricots, nectarines and cherries—one hybrid tree bears all these fruits. Artist Sam Van Aken cultivated the "Tree of 40 Fruits" to symbolize the biodiversity needed to feed our planet. About ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Ideas don't grow on trees, until now. Syracuse University Professor Sam Van Aken is the proud father of a single tree that grows 40 types of fruit. The artist's rendering of his ...

Challenging UNDATED (CNN) -- The first time Sam Van Aken saw tree branches being grafted and grown onto other trees, he likened it to Frankenstein. Yet, when the process became a full-time fascination ...

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 ...

When it comes to the best Christmas tree themes, we like to live by the motto “The more, the merrier!” And Christmas trends expert, Mercedes Fuller, VP of Merchandising at Balsam Hill, agrees: “We’re ...

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 ...

I first wrote about the Tree of 40 Fruit project back in 2018, when artist Sam Van Aken discussed his fascinating tree-grafting project as part of the a Science & Art Cabaret. At the time, I remember ...

UNDATED -- Ideas don't grow on trees, until now. Syracuse University sports teams are known as "The Orange." But a Syracuse professor created a way to put dozens of fruits, all on one tree. Sam Van ...

Peaches, apricots, nectarines and cherries—one hybrid tree bears all these fruits. Artist Sam Van Aken cultivated the "Tree of 40 Fruits" to... How 40 different fruits grow from one single tree Part 4 ...