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["Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

I agree with Bill.  Fruit growing is pretty labor intensive around here.
I've seen lots of folks with the mindset of "plant trees and harvest fruit".
They never get much.  With peaches, if they aren't thinned, the branches
will eventually be laying on the ground (broken).  Even with serviceberries,
we have such bird pressure, I can't imagine much of a harvest without
netting.  This concept may work well in areas with little pest pressure, but
I can't imagine them trying it here.

Mark
East KS
Zone 6

P.S. In this locale, black walnuts seem to do pretty good with little labor,
but nobody does anything with them.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Kacalanos" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Advocates envision free fruit and nuts for Madison
parks


> 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 <> wrote:
>
> > From: mIEKAL aND <>
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Advocates envision free fruit and nuts for Madison
parks
> > To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>,
midwestpermaculture@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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