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Favorite Garden Tool: The Fruit Picker
With home gardening on the rise, the Ames fruit harvester is this summer's must-have tool for easily reaching high branches and snagging every last ripe plum, fig, and peach growing in the backyards of America. Its ten-foot telescoping weatherproof handle and hooked basket will also appeal to urban foragers, the new crop of locavores who, armed with fruit tree maps and a waste-not, want-not mentality, harvest from public and private land--with permission, of course. To tap into urban foraging, visit sites like neighborhoodfruit.com and veggietrader.com, which list available fruit by zip codes.
Ames True Temper fresh fruit harvester; $50; amazon.com
--Zinzi Edmunson / Photo: Nigel Cox
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