BILL_PULLMAN BUDI CHRIS_ROLLINS DAVID_BURD DAVID_SUZUKI FLOWER_MAN INDIAN_WOMAN ISABELLA JAMES_BABIAN JENNY_BURD KEN_LOVE MAN_1 MAN_2 MAN_3 MAN_IN_FOREST MAN_IN_INTERPHONE MAN_ON_MARKET MAN_WITH_GREY_SHIRT MAN_WITH_HAT NARRATOR NORIS_LEDESMA RICHARD_CAMPBELL STEPHEN_BRADY TRUCK_FARMER_1 TRUCK_FARMER_2 WOMAN_SUNGLASSES NARRATOR Fruit might just be another item on our grocery list, but for Fruit Hunters, it’s a lifelong obsession. They know that there’s a world of exotic fruit beyond the supermarket. That’s why they traverse the globe in search of rare white fleshed mangoes, succulent ice cream beans, and mind altering miracle fruit. One taste of these hidden treasures is enough to change your life forever. But it’s not all fun and guavas, as the fruit they collect might not be there the next time they visit. Fruit Hunting is more than a hobby sometimes it’s a lifelong mission. DAVID SUZUKI We all have an indelible fruit memory, the perfect strawberry, the first bite of a chris paple But some people are completely obsessed with finding, testing and saving exotic fruits, they are the fruits hunters and after entering their mysterious world, you wouldn’t look at fruits in quite the same way again. NARRATOR Fruit Hunters range from backyard growers to professional horticulturalists, to just plain obsessives. MAN WITH HAT Tropical fruits just are more varied than any other food that we eat, from the very pungent, strong taste of the durian to the sub-acid sweet taste of the langsats and the longans and the lychees to the richness of the mangoes. It's a real cornucopia of flavor. JAMES BABIAN I've been to Malaysia, Singapore, Puerto Rico just to find the varieties of the fruit trees. I never really got into growing it until I was a bit older. ISABELLA I think the connection of fruits with people for me is very basic. It senses : something that makes people happy. It's a connection with their own roots. MAN WITH GREY SHIRT I've traveled throughout Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands. The thing about fruit collecting is that there is no end. And if you have friends overseas and they'd give me a call tomorrow, I'm on the plane to find it. CHRIS ROLLINS Before long, it became an obsession and I was no longer a normal person. STEPHEN BRADY It blossomed into a fulltime case of insanity. NARRATOR What compels a Fruit Hunter to drop everything and travel halfway across the world just to taste something new. Fruit is a powerful seducer. It’s designed to be. At its most basic level, a fruit is simply a part of a flowering plant’s reproductive system. The way it spreads its seeds. Fruit lures us in with scent, shape and color. That’s because it wants to be eaten. When an animal or a person eats a piece of fruit, the seeds pass through the digestive system, spreading its genetic material far and wide. What other food desires us as much as we desire it? Fruit Hunters know just how deep our love affair truly goes. It’s a symbiotic relationship that goes back to our deepest origins. Our early relationship with fruit helped make us human. We coevolved with fruit. In the jungle, our eyes began to distinguish between green and red. That process continued as we realized we could change fruit, and started growing and breeding new varieties ourselves. Through the development of agriculture, fruit was now within reach. We didn’t have to search for it in the wild. We could settle down and focus on a mutual goal : abundance. It worked. But the end result is that we traded variety for convenience. Fruit is now bred for shelf life and to withstand long journeys, for profit not taste. Today, you can walk into a supermarket and buy the exact same fruit anywhere in the world, any time of year. The food industry calls it permanent global summertime. Year round abundance, but at a cost. Fruit has become predictable, plastic wrapped and bland. But not for those who have dedicated their lives to finding the wonderful and exotic. TRUCK FARMER 1 It's always fun going and introducing new fruits. New cultivars of mangoes. NARRATOR Some of the world’s most passionate Fruit Hunters can be found at the gatherings of the Rare Fruit Council International. MAN 1 Get a little this way cause you're blocking the fruit. You're blocking the fruit. Can you believe it? Oh, that’s good! MAN 2 This durian traveled from halfway around the world to be with us this evening. INDIAN WOMAN This will taste almost like eating vanilla ice cream. MAN 3 Smells like an outhouse. INDIAN WOMAN No, don’t listen to him! MAN ON MARKET Obviously, people are pretty opinionated about this fruit. MAN 3 You can buy that part frozen. RICHARD CAMPBELL Another older mango from Hawaii is Excel. This one actually came from the selection program at the university of Hawaii. Hamilton selected this mango. Very, very good. NARRATOR Richard Campbell and Noris Ledesma are horticulturalists and professional Fruit Hunters based in Florida. RICHARD CAMPBELL My definition of a fruit hunter is when you see something, you taste it, you have to have it. NORIS LEDESMA Yes, it’s blooming. I can see that. Right there. Wow! Look at that! RICHARD CAMPBELL See you can lose yourself in the passion of anything. That's what really makes it so exciting. RICHARD CAMPBELL That’s very good. RICHARD CAMPBELL I love that side of fruit hunting. NARRATOR Richard and Noris travel the world, searching for rare and often endangered fruit to identify and preserve in their tropical fruit collection. NORIS LEDESMA Very good. RICHARD CAMPBELL There. Look at the mangoes. Oh! Mira los mangos. BUDI But…there is a… NORIS LEDESMA Sweet. BUDI Sweet inside. Yeah. NARRATOR Fruit hunts often begin not in the jungles but in the markets, like this one, on the island of Borneo. Richard and Noris work backwards, tracking the fruit to its source. NORIS LEDESMA You know this tree? TRUCK FARMER 2 I show you the… NORIS LEDESMA In a map? Ok, how to get it? TRUCK FARMER 2 This is the main road. NORIS LEDESMA Okay. TRUCK FARMER 2 You just go straight along this way. NORIS LEDESMA Okay. NARRATOR Relying on the cooperation of locals, Richard and Noris hunt down their elusive prey. NORIS LEDESMA Ah, so this is the tree? Like you have? This is…? So take us to see this tree, please. Well, you can see it. RICHARD CAMPBELL There’s three mangoes. Right above my head. NORIS LEDESMA No but can we take a picture of the flowers to identify it? NARRATOR When they find a suitable candidate, they collect genetic material from the tree. Not the fruit itself, but healthy branches. They’ll bring them back to Florida, to grow in their conservatory at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. It has one of the largest tropical fruit collections in the world, with over one thousand varieties. Its founder, David Fairchild, an explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was a legendary Fruit Hunter. At the turn of the 20th century, Fairchild traveled the world searching for exotic specimens. He brought hundreds of new species home. Some of these fruits were strange, like the miracle berry. A magical fruit from Cameroon that transforms your taste buds by coating them in a special liquid. One bite of the berry makes anything sour taste incredibly sweet. But David Fairchild is also the reason we eat popular fruits like mangoes, nectarines and cherries. As the senior fruit curators at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Richard and Noris carry on his legacy. Their connection to fruit runs deep. NORIS LEDESMA I grew up with my grandmother and my uncle. My mother was working in another town and I see her just once a year. Fruit for me has been everything, since I was a little. In my country, as a Colombian, we eat fruit all the time, probably since my mom was pregnant. My bones are made with bananas, my flesh is mango, and I really feel it that way. RICHARD CAMPBELL When I was in kindergarten, my teacher sent home a little thing that said : "Richard wants to get a PhD and collect tropical fruit when he grows up". And basically that's what I did. My dad was a great horticulturist. I would consider him one of the greatest horticulturists in this hemisphere. Fairchild is basically a Noah's Ark for tropical fruit. You know, you could play devil’s advocate and say : “What does it matter to save all this diversity because there is this economic crunch in the world right now ?” I would use an argument: does it really matter to save the Mona Lisa? What’s the point to save the Mona Lisa ? There’s a lot of paintings out there. He did a whole many paintings, right ? Ok ? I mean, so what ? Just another painting. Well, that’s true to… most people starving in the world don’t care about the Mona Lisa. But there are a lot of people that do care because if that’s lost, it can never be regained. I would look at our genetic collections in that same way. You can never regain the Pura Vida if it’s lost. The Pura Vida is a Mona Lisa. It’s just an avocado, but it’s a Mona Lisa. That’s amazing. NORIS LEDESMA I work with mangoes. That’s my life. We have 600 different mangoes. That’s unique. What is unique? Something that is going to disappear. And your children are not going to be able to see it. NARRATOR Richard and Noris arrive in Bali to track down a rare Southeast Asian mango. BUDI Welcome to Bali! Welcome back to Bali. Nice to meet you again. NARRATOR To start their expedition, they attend a fruit ceremony, blessing the new harvest season. They’ve spent almost two decades attempting to bring back and grow the whitefleshed Wani, without success. RICHARD CAMPBELL The Wani is a wild mango. It is one of the elite species of mangifera. There’s over 60 species of mangifera that people eat. All right? NARRATOR If they succeed, the fruit might one day lie in supermarket shelves, but first, they’re going to have hunt for it in the markets and jungles of Bali. As we coevolved with fruit, it became part of us, from our rituals, our history and even our earliest memories. KEN LOVE It’s hard to say where I first became interested in fruit. I can remember going to the circus with my grandfather and the people were walking around with cones of cotton candy, spun sugar. And the first time that I tried Inga or ice cream bean, I just : "God, this is just like cotton candy." I could remember my grandfather. It takes you back. A lot of the fruit takes you back to those memories. NARRATOR Every variety of fruit has a story, the story of the person who cultivated an individual plant and then shared something wonderful with the world. Rudolph Hass was a Pasadena postman who planted an avocado tree in his yard and now, Hass avocados are grown and sold around the world. In an Algerian monastery, Father Clément Rodier cultivated a sweet citrus fruit that would eventually be named after him : the clementine. A grower in the American Northwest, Ha Bing, cultivated a sweet and flavorful cherry before finding himself barred from the US following the Chinese Exclusion Act. But he left behind the Bing Cherry, one of the most popular varieties of cherries today. When a variety of fruit is lost, a story reaches its end. Our natural diversity is diminished and we lose a piece of our history. In the fertile hills of Umbria, Isabella Dalla Ragione searches for lost varieties of fruit. When she reclaims one, she preserves a piece of the region’s history. ISABELLA My father was originally from this area. In the 50’s and 60’s, he saw people losing touch with the history of this region. So he started collecting the plants and trees that had been very important for genreations of peasants. NARRATOR Continuing her father’s work, Isabella maintains an orchard of lost fruit. It’s a living library where she preserves rare and forgotten varieties. Sometimes, her work takes her deep into the region’s history as she hunts down fruit depicted in art or literature. Wealthy Renaissance dynasties like the Medici and the Bufalini would commission paintings of their agricultural holdings. Isabella identifies the fruit in these artworks and searches for the plants they’re based on. Some of them are still alive, even after hundreds of years. ISABELLA It’s too much, it’s too much… No, no, no. Let’s try to find the one… the one that matches. Wait, let’s look in here, in here, in here. Yes, this might be it. We saw this unique fig at the Bufalini palace, a fig that had a strange color I’ve never seen before. They’re very small. They must have suffered from the drought. But it’s a very beautiful fig tree. I just want to know if it’s exactly that one. NARRATOR Isabella looks for leads by speaking to knowledgeable locals. ISABELLA So we’re talking about… the early 1900’s. The three of them are exactly the same. I don’t think so. I don’t think so. Perhaps we can still find this fig within a convent or a monastery because monasteries were very important in the preservation of fruits. MAN IN INTERPHONE Who’s there ? ISABELLA Hello, I’m Isabella Della Ragione. MAN IN INTERPHONE Oh yes, the lady coming for… ISABELLA The figs, yes. MAN IN INTERPHONE Is it open ? ISABELLA Yes, thank you ! I wanted to tell you that I did this research a few years ago. What Is important to me is to track down trees and to understand the connection with the people who used them. NARRATOR Monasteries and convents were often the sites of advances in fruit cultivation. Older monasteries are like time capsules for ancient varieties. ISABELLA You see, this one is different from the other fig trees. Oh, here, here. Like this one. Like this one. As if they were already dried. Yes, that’s it. Here. See, every once in a while I do uncover something new. Thank you, Father ! NARRATOR This humble fig might have been eaten by the dynasties that ruled Renaissance Umbria. When Isabella recovers it, she opens a door to a nearly forgotten past. Perhaps we’ll one day eat it again. ISABELLA These fruits, these trees are actually part of our soul, what we have been in the past. So when we rescue these fruits, we also save our memories and our souls. NARRATOR But there are places in the world where the fruit connection hasn’t been lost yet, where diversity is still a part of people’s daily lives. Richard and Noris are in Bali in search of the Wani, otherwise known as the white fleshed mango. They search the markets of Pangsan for the Wani with the help of their local guide, Budi. Once they find the whitefleshed mango, they’ll have to trace it back to the tree. RICHARD CAMPBELL Where did you get these mangoes? BUDI That is from… from the… the suburb of the town. NORIS LEDESMA Do you consider Wani a mango? Wani? Do you know Wani? BUDI Regarding to her, Wani that is part of mango, but she said it is the white mango. NORIS LEDESMA For you it is the white mango. And do you like it ? RICHARD CAMPBELL This has the consistency of a pear, yet the flavor of a guanábana. It has the milkiness, it has everything else. I like the acid. It has a little bit of an acidity to it. So it’s good. BUDI Why the Balinese they still have Wani, like in their backyard, because the tree is nice. They have a good scent to their property. When the tree is getting older and older, the taste of the fruit will be sweeter and sweeter. Nicer and nicer! NORIS LEDESMA Ah! When it’s getting older! BUDI When they are getting older and older, the skin of the fruit will be changed to be like a darker colour. And little bit more wrinkled. The taste of the fruit is much better than when we have just a nice skin like this. NORIS LEDESMA Don’t say that to a woman, though. RICHARD CAMPBELL Up until now, we don't even know how to graft a Wani. A Wani will not graft onto anything we have. We cannot attach a piece of a Wani tree to our mango trees. They won't live. So what we are… what we have spent 15 years, 20 years trying to figure out how to do is to successfully bring a piece of this tree, the Wani, back and make it live on something that we have growing there. We now think we know how to do it. NARRATOR Grafting is an ancient technique where a branch or a “budwood” is joined to another tree of the same species. Supported by the tree, the grafted branch will eventually produce fruit. To grow the exact same fruit the Wani produces in Bali, Richard and Noris will need to find a way to graft a Wani branch to one of their existing mango trees. RICHARD CAMPBELL It took us 15 to 20 years to figure out what's the one mangiferus species that we can use as an interstock. NARRATOR With some difficult species, they sometimes use a third branch to help form a healthy graft. RICHARD CAMPBELL I failed with the mangiferus species for 20 years. I’ve had 20 years of great experience at failing. I don’t like to fail, okay? I’m a bad loser. For this Bali expedition, there is a very big threat that we won’t get what we want. We may not find the tree that’s in the right state, we may not be able to get the material and keep it alive long enough. There is nothing worse to me than going out, having a wonderful expedition and going, having all the culture and everything, bringing something back and then watching it die. That’s the worst thing in the world. NARRATOR For Richard and Noris to success in growing a Wani mango, they’ll have to find a Wani tree in Bali’s dense forests. Fruit Hunters often find themselves becoming fruit obsessives. DAVID BURD We have a small place of about one fifth of one acre, but it is a tropical fruit tree jungle. JENNY BURD We trimmed big trees and… He trimmed the trees and I was the dragon lady. DAVID BURD She would drag it out! JENNY BURD I would drag it out and put it in the trailer to take to the dump! DAVID BURD We have a lot of fun, we laugh a lot and we say : “Are the neighbors listening?” NARRATOR The passion for fruit sometimes leads people to go beyond their back yards. Following clues from a Balinese market where they’ve discovered a Wani mango, Richard and Noris work with Budi to track down the location of the tree. Before they can touch it, the tree must be properly blessed according to Balinese tradition. RICHARD CAMPBELL Okay, I don't have to go all the way top to get the fruit. NORIS LEDESMA Look at that ! Ah ! It's beautiful ! RICHARD CAMPBELL Budi, I have a question. So the ants on this, are they particularly unfun? Or are they relatively gentle? BUDI Relatively gentle. MAN IN FOREST Okay Richard! Go Richard! NORIS LEDESMA Here we go! NARRATOR In Bali, the Wani is prized for its flavour and fibreless sweet white flesh. But it’s nearly nonexistent outside of a small pocket of Southeast Asia. With the fruit threatened by deforestation, Richard and Noris believe it’s important that they bring home a living sample. RICHARD CAMPBELL Now here are the buds breaking, are all bloom. NORIS LEDESMA Can you get one of those flowers for me, please Richard? RICHARD CAMPBELL Yeah, I will. But you’re just gonna have to hold on. Hey, Budi’s friendly insects are introducing themselves to me. When you’re in the bowels of a mango tree, it’s like being in your mother’s arms. NORIS LEDESMA Oh! RICHARD CAMPBELL Sorry. Ok, now I’m going to get a piece of budwood. Whenever I collect budwood of something that is hard to graft, I try to get something up in the very highest part, because up here, it has full light and it’s full of energy. Perfecto! NARRATOR Every time Richard and Noris collect a fruit branch, they know that the tree it came from might not be there the next time they visit. MAN IN FOREST Good job! RICHARD CAMPBELL Even though it's fun to come hunting and looking for mangoes we have to get them into a collection where they're protected, where there's, you know… if something happens, if somebody offers somebody too much money for that tree out there for lumber. If it's worth more than lumber than for fruit, it's gone. So…we will put it in our genetic collections where it will live on forever. A piece of a tree is immortal, they can go for… these can carry on for thousands of years. And just remember, we've failed for 20 years so we can only get better! NARRATOR They may have secured the necessary genetic material from the Wani tree, but the real challenge lies ahead. Wrapped in protective parafilm, the precious branches will only live for several days. They must be kept alive until they can be grafted back in Florida, 16,000 kilometers away. While native fruits grow wild in Bali, Hawaii is a human made fruit paradise. It’s a special place for Fruit Hunters. 120 years ago, the kingdom was overthrown by pineapple tycoons. But the pineapple wasn’t indigenous to Hawaii. Very few fruit are. The combination of climate and rich volcanic soil makes it an ideal place to cultivate fruit. Immigrants and settlers from all over the world brought plants with them, overrunning the natural ecology, but turning the island chain into a fruit filled garden of Eden. KEN LOVE It might, it might be a Sevilletype orange. So… you see something like this. I mean, it’s reminiscent of type of citron or Buddha’s hand. NARRATOR Ken Love first visited Hawaii 25 years ago. Entranced by the fruit he saw and tasted, he quit his job as a news photographer and moved to Kona. What he found there was an island paradise where tropical fruits grow in abundance, and yet where most people buy expensive produce from the mainland. Ken Love’s mission is to educate his neighbors about the treasures that grow in their back yards and show them how they can become fruit hunters themselves. KEN LOVE Do you want to try some? Come on! Once you’re experienced quality… I mean, there is no way in hell I can go back into a grocery store and buy an imported avocado. You know? I just cannot do it. Because I've had real ones, you know, from the backyard. NARRATOR Ken loves to take people on fruit hunts, like his friend, film actor and fruit obsessive Bill Pullman. BILL PULLMAN I think what we’re gonna do is go in the hard way. KEN LOVE So, hang on to your fillings. In one of the Back to the Future movies: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” BILL PULLMAN Oh, where’s gonna go straight? KEN LOVE Yeah. This is less than a year. BILL PULLMAN Wow! KEN LOVE This growth. I just hope that there wasn’t a lava tube that opened up here in the last… For me, Bill, this is the ultimate fruit hunting. I'm just glad I know the guy that owns the land, cause I don't want to get shot. BILL PULLMAN Here Ken. KEN LOVE Oh! Beautiful. Look at the color in that. BILL PULLMAN A little tart. KEN LOVE A little tart? BILL PULLMAN Yeah KEN LOVE but this is perfect for processing. NARRATOR Fruit hunting with Ken Love is like getting a tour of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. KEN LOVE I don't know why they call this ice cream bean. I think they should really call it cotton candy bean. BILL PULLMAN Yeah! KEN LOVE This is water apple. Syzygium Aqueum. This is an incredible fruit. This is given to women after childbirth in Malaysia. There’s 3 essential fruit that we eat in Hawaii. One is the breadfruit, and then there’s one peanut butter fruit and this is blackberry jam fruit. BILL PULLMAN That is weird. KEN LOVE Well, dig in! Just dig in and… BILL PULLMAN Mmm! Kind of pudding. KEN LOVE Mmhm. NARRATOR Years ago, before the locavore trend swept North America, Ken created an initiative meant to bring together Hawaiian farmers and chefs. JAMES BABIAN I gotta give Ken… He’s the man! He’s the fruit guru! Fruit guru! KEN LOVE I used to see him in a parking lot at one of the shopping centres : “Chef, chef, come on you’ve got to try this!” JAMES BABIAN I was in town, I was doing some shopping: "Chef Babian! Chef Babian". What the heck? And here's Ken. He's running across..."you've got to come to my car". He opens his truck and he's got jabuticaba, sapote, and all this ...I didn't even know what that was at the time. But the problem is : how many tons fall to ground here and we still not we, but the island continues to import from California. So our mission here is to become more sustainable. It’s the right thing to do on a lot of levels, right ? From the plant to the plate, it tastes better. When you buy things in season, the flavor is better. They’re picked when they’re ripe, it doesn’t have the negative impact on the environment. It’s better for the economy… the local economy. 13, 15 years later, we’re in a very good place now. NARRATOR Ensuring a future for rare fruit isn’t just about growing it. The public needs to develop an appetite so that everyone becomes a bit of a Fruit Hunter. For Fruit Hunters, fruit is more than just food it’s a deep personal connection. WOMAN SUNGLASSES It is a lot of work. What I get out of it is the satisfaction of you actually get the fruit of your labour. You walk around and you marvel as to… you know, this was just a little plant like the lucuma that I had planted about 3 years ago. It was about this tall. It was a grafted lucuma. And now it's probably just over two feet tall and it started to flower. NARRATOR With living samples of the rare white mango tree in hand, Richard and Noris head for the airport. Bringing seeds or seedlings back is illegal. But these living branches, once grafted to rootstock, will be able to produce the exact same fruit they found in Bali. But first, they must face the nerverattling journey home. All their work will be for nothing if they can’t get the branches through customs, where plants are scrutinized for pests and disease. RICHARD CAMPBELL We have the different materials separated. Officially speaking, there’s gonna be no problem. They should let it go. So the worst case scenario is there’s no one to inspect it and they destroy it. And they can do it. They have the right to do it if they decide anything. The worst case would be if they found something on it, right? If they found some sort of a quarantine pest. NORIS LEDESMA It's like I lose one of my children. It's terrible. You know you suffer. You sweat to get it. Finally you get to your final destination, your target. It's to have a tree alive, growing in our collection. And so the tree is gone. RICHARD CAMPBELL It's one thing to go out. We saw, we get excited. We love to see them out here growing, but getting them back into the ground growing, fruiting, that's the key. We leave no budwood behind. We leave no one behind. We're just like the marines, alright? Thank you for so much. BUDI I will miss you a lot. We'll take care of your material, okay? BUDI Thank you. NORIS LEDESMA Thank you, Budi. Thank you. NARRATOR Back in the States, they successfully clear U.S. Customs. Richard and Noris race home to the Fairchild farm where they must graft the branches onto their mango rootstock as soon as possible. NORIS LEDESMA We cannot afford to wait another day to get that material propagated. So we have to come right away, no matter how tired you are and you have to propagate them. Because you have better chances if you do it earlier than later. RICHARD CAMPBELL Grafting is one part science, one part superstition. Throw in feelings. You've got to be fresh basically, that makes a huge difference. Because this is really where the rubber meets the road for what we do. You can't have a Balinese Wani from any other way. Hopefully, that’s gonna do it! NORIS LEDESMA We need just one! A piece of branch has everything that you need to make exactly the same tree. And that is magic for me. NARRATOR With some luck, the Wani tree will thrive in its new home. In their journey to preserve it, Richard and Noris are tapping into a deep human instinct, to experience biophilia or love of living systems. That’s what sends them out again and again to discover and share a diversity that is as limitless as it is fragile. It’s a feeling that defines us as a species. FLOWER MAN One 20, now 30. 30, now 30. NARRATOR Biophilia is on full display every year at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Annual Mango Auction. Fruit Hunters from all over the world obsess over a selection of mangoes of every colour, shape and taste, selected from the Fairchild’s huge collection. All proceeds go to benefit the Fairchild’s tropical fruit program. FLOWER MAN 330 now 40. 40. 340 now 40 now 40 now 40, 50. 350. 50 now 50. 60, 70. 370. Five hundred. Five hundred dollars. 550. 550. 580 now. 600. 650, 700. 700$. 700 going once. 700$. 750. 750 now 800. 800$ now 800. 800 going once. 800 going twice. Sold, 750$. NORIS LEDESMA When you see all these movements, people trying to do good things, based in a fruit. It's hope. RICHARD CAMPBELL Actually these we have these on agreement with the Israeli government. We’re trying to help maintain these genetic resources for the people of this planet. That’s our job. ISABELLA It’s not just about variety. It’s about the universe that orbits around every variety of fruit, which is a tale. It’s a human relationship. KEN LOVE Maybe that’s part of it. It triggers these memories that we had as a child, or special moments in our lives. Maybe that’s part of the allure of, or the addiction of being into this tropical fruit so much. NARRATOR Fruit’s incredible diversity is all around us, whether you live in Hawaii or Canada. You may have to look further than the supermarket aisles, but it’s there. There are even urban Fruit Hunters searching for treasures in their own backyards. All you need to awaken that desire for diversity is to try something fresh, sweet or strange. Perhaps we’re all Fruit Hunters at heart, we just have to take that first bite.