The anonymous collective Guerrilla Grafters dodges dog poop and, technically, the cops to introduce plums, pears, and apples to fruitless city trees, Adam Iscoe writes.
Flash back to the springtime, when Prefer, who is nonbinary and wore double-kneed work pants and mud-caked trail runners, brandished a pair of pruning shears at a plum tree. They said, “What if everyone had an apple tree in front of their house instead of having to go buy apples at the store?” Prefer snipped a low branch, then used black electrical tape to graft a gnarly twig of rosy-gage scionwood in its place.
“We shoulda brought a ladder,” Prefer said, climbing into the canopy to show the novices how to use a whip-and-tongue graft cut and a rubber band to fasten scionwood to a branch. Next up, a Callery pear tree. Someone kept a lookout; Dewey used an X-Acto knife to make a notch in the scionwood and attached it to a branch. In a few years, Prefer hoped, it would produce small-necked Seckel pears. Dewey had some ambivalence about grafting. “You’re, like, playing God,” she said.
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