[NAFEX] Advocates envision free fruit and nuts for Madison parks

Melissa Kacalanos mijwiz at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 8 18:07:42 EST 2010


I can see this working with truly easy species, like juneberries and mulberries, but peaches?

I started a mulberry-picking trend at a park last year, and everyone was delighted at the novelty. I had to assure passers-by many times that mulberries really are edible, but they eventually believed me, and enjoyed the fruit themselves. (This was an unusually flavorful mulberry.)

I can see potental "liability issues" from people climbing trees to reach the fruit. My neighbor's pear tree is enormous. If this program is in a place that's libertarian enough to allow people to climb trees at their own risk, it could work.

Melissa

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Advocates envision free fruit and nuts for Madison parks
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>, midwestpermaculture at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 8:42 AM
> (this will be interesting to follow,
> hopefully they'll pay a lot of
> attention to disease resistant varieties..)
> 
> 
> Advocates envision free fruit and nuts for Madison parks
> 
> http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/article_3a129588-1014-54ef-8950-caec44b996ca.html


      



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