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Nearly 100,000 online votes have won Bloomington 20 organic fruit trees from the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, a California-based non-profit that is giving away 100 trees every month to communities who organize an orchard. The Bloomington Community Orchard Project will plant the trees in a city park near the Monroe County YMCA. Correspondent John Patishnock sat down with orchard organizers Amy Countryman and Shaun Ziegler in this WFHB exclusive. EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.