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Puerto Rico - August 2008 (exact date and location unknown) 1. Wide shot of entrance to the farm, fruit trees visible on hillside. 2. Wide shot overlooking orchard. 3. Wide shot Ian Crownwalks through the orchard. 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ian Crown, Owner, Panoramic Fruit Company: "There's something about growing a plant, and the feedback that you get....when you first start out you have a seedling or something small, and then there's the transition from just being a vegetative thing that's pretty to look at that's getting bigger to one day you pick the fruit. And at that point you've sort of taken it from nothing to something, and it's very rewarding." 5. Medium shot, members of farm tour walk down a row of trees. 6. Medium shot crown picks a rambutan from a tree. 7. Medium shot crown lifts a box full of rambutans. 8. Close shot of box full of rambutans 9. Very close shot of rambutan 10. Close shot crown show how to open a rambutan and exposes the fruit inside. 11. UPSOUND: (English) Ian Crown, Owner, Panoramic Fruit Company: "You just want to break the skin, you can do it with your teeth or thumbnail, open it up and it looks sort of like a translucent hardboiled egg. Then, it just pops out." 12. Wide shot of orchards from above. 13. Close shot of mangosteen trees from afar, pull to show close of tree saplings growing in foreground 14. Wide shot of guests sampling fruit. 15. Medium shot of durian fruit on table. 16. Close shot of durian fruit on table. 17. Medium shot of durian tree. 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ian Crown, Owner, Panoramic Fruit Company: "This is such a spectacular tree. These fruits - he small ones probably are only three or four pounds, some of the bigger ones are going to hit 15 or 20, and I'm probably not going to hit my next birthday if any of these come off." 19. Close shot of durians on tree. 20. Close shot of madrono fruits on table. 21. Very close of madrono fruit. 22. Medium shot of woman eating a piece of madrono fruit, giving thumbs up sign. 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ian Crown, Owner, Panoramic Fruit Company: "Now quite a few people down here have had the chance to try the mangosteen, and everyone knows how good that fruit is, so it was more you know 'just bear with me...we're going to need quite a few years, and we're just going to go along a year at a time, trying to bring these things into production." 24. Medium shot of Crown cutting and opening a mangosteen. 25. Medium shot of Crown in front of a mangosteen tree. 26. Close shot of two mangosteens on the tree. 27. Very close shot of ripe mangosteen. 28. Wide shot of the hillside with rambutan tree, pull to farm gate. 29. Medium shot of same rambutan tree laden with fruit. 30. Close shot of branch of same tree, heavy with fruit. LEAD IN : Exotic fruits are becoming ever more popular in western supermarkets. Lychees and longans, mangosteens, rambutan and the foul smelling durian are finding their way into shopping trolleys in the United States. Inspired by this growing trend one former commodities broker left the world of Wall Street to become a fruit farmer on the sub tropical island of Puerto Rico and is now tasting the fruits of his success. STORYLINE: Ian Crown's exotic fruit farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico is a labour of love. He grows some very unusual fruit - many of which most people have never even heard of - things like mangosteens, rambutan, durian and longan (a sweet, grape-like fruit popular in Asian markets). Recently Crown invited friends and colleagues to the farm for a harvest festival. He took his visitors on a tour of the farm, where fruit hung ripe on the trees, and talked about the satisfaction of growing your own fruit. The trees that are finally producing took twelve years. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3efc5d50a5ec52e0450a380adfedbf3a Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork