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From the first green plums of spring to late summer pomegranates, a seven-acre public fruit garden in Istanbul, Turkey, allows visitors to pick their own produce. The project is part of a growing global trend to plant fruit trees in public spaces for everyone to enjoy. But it’s not an entirely new practice. Centuries ago, most humans probably had a “food forest” right next door. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports.