orchard sharing
From: Audrey Watson (audreygalisteo.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:17:39 -0800 (PST)
At Winslow Cohousing, we have an orchard that was planted before the buildings were even built. It is available for all to pick, and we have work parties to maintain it. (and we have paid to have it pruned, and are having a pruning class this weekend) There is always an abundance of fruit, and we use the fruits both for common meals and individual consumption. A few years we have had cider pressing parties, and drink the cider at common meals and it goes to those doing the work for the cider pressing. (I don't know exactly how many trees we have but at least a couple plum, a couple peach, pear, cherry, and a dozen or more apple trees, one fig, quince, etc). We actually have more of a problem keeping the fruit from going to waste and ending up on the ground. Altho we have had to post several times to kids to not pick the fruit before it gets ripe (taking a bite and throwing the rest on the ground). We have a problem with apple maggots, which is normal for western washington. We are trying various solutions. The sweet cherries do seem to get eaten by the birds before we can get them, and sometimes the raccoons and squirrels have decimated the plums (they wait right until the fruit gets ripe). We eat lots of apple cobblers in the fall at common meals. We have some nut trees, but I think the squirrels tend to eat all of them (hazelnuts at least).
--audrey watson
Bainbridge Island, WA

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:09:27 -0800
From: "Carol Singleton" <Quetzal4 [at] charter.net>
Subject: [C-L]_ Orchards
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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Our community is considering planting an orchard and we are wondering how
other communities handle the fruits of their labor.  Are the fruits/nuts
shared with all the community members even if they did not work in the
orchard or given for community meals, or are folks who work in the orchard
given first dibs on the fruit/nuts, or what? Thanks, Carol Singleton
Oak Creek Commons
Paso Robles, California





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