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#Wheelbarrows & folks OK working with them are absolutely essential to year-round #community #OrchardCare #stewardship work!

At #WellandCommunityOrchard.

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Four-panel composite image depicting people working in a garden setting, each scene involving a wheelbarrow filled with wood chips. The image showcases the various stages of the gardening process, with individuals seen pushing, raking, and spreading the wood chips. The background includes trees, fallen leaves, and other garden elements, indicating an outdoor, possibly autumn, activity.

The 2nd fruiting of the #figs. These are just left on the trees for wildlife. We only pick the first flush fruiting of figs.

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Two green figs growing on a tree branch, surrounded by yellowing leaves, the tree trunk visible in the background against a pale blue sky.

We had fun harvesting American #persimmons from the community orchard 😊

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A collage of six photos showing persimmons: close-ups of persimmons held in hands, a glass filled with them, and cardboard boxes overflowing with the orange fruit, one box of persimmons with a "Persimmon" sign, behind it.

So many wheelbarrow loads of wood mulch. We got a lot done, together 😀

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Volunteers working on mulching at #WellandCommunityOrchard. We got a big pile of fabulous, mostly cedar wood mulch from a local sawmill.

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Boiling water to make tea for work party break.

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American #persimmons harvested.

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Excellent work party at #WellandCommunityOrchard today. Harvesting #persimmons & #mulching the #FruitTrees.

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#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #WorkParty #mulch #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #CultivatingCommunities #harvest #fruit

From the fall garden today, #NikitasGift #Persimmon. This is from Yalta, #Ukraine, a cross between the American persimmon, #DiospyrosVirginiana and #Kaki, an Asian persimmon. Fruit is larger than the American variety, still has the astringency of the Hachiya till fully ripe, and the fruit hangs until picked. Fall color is outstanding.

#Gardening
#FruitTrees

Nikita's Gift persimmon tree with large leathery leaves in colors of orange to deep russet, with some still mottled green and orange. Bright, round orange persimmon fruits peek out between the leaves.

A closer view of Nikita's Gift persimmons with leaves shading from green to yellow to orange.

Closeup view of a Nikita's Gift persimmon showing it's round form and yellow to orange fall leaf color

@Rania

This is special sweet #acorn from #Spain. Very good to eat, a little bit like #chestnuts, very resistant to heat and #drought

I hope one day I can bring one
It's from https://balanotrees.org

#trees #food #climatechange #gaza #palestine #freepalestine #co2 #permaculture #resilience #droughtresilience #ediblefoodforest #edibleforestgarden #edibleforest #SpanishFood #fruittrees #fruittreeproject #foodbiodiversity #palestinians #landwirtschaft #umwelt #biodiversity

Quercus rotundifolia "Antigua", grafted. Little, in pot.
Sweet acorn, special Spanish variety.

Jacket Plum fruit pics taken at Quarry Lake Regonal Park. Im growing these but mine may be less cold hardy. Taste is acidic and somewhat lemony. Last Pic is my largest seedlings from seed I ordered a few years ago. #gardening #fruit #fruittrees

Danh hài Thúy Nga "bội thu" cây trái trong biệt thự triệu đô ở Mỹ, khoe khu vườn đủ loại đang vào vụ thu hoạch. #ThúyNga #đời sống Mỹ #biệt thự Mỹ #garden #fruittrees #home #vườn #trái cây #mansion

https://vietnamnet.vn/danh-hai-thuy-nga-boi-thu-cay-trai-trong-biet-thu-trieu-do-o-my-2457204.html

One morning a couple of years ago I found a young flying fox tangled in the net that covered our nectarine tree. We looked at each other from about a metre away, through the net, she was upside down & looked like a small black cat. She was so clearly sentient, exhausted & asking for help. I called the local wildlife rescue & a lovely woman came - this was before 7am on a Saturday. She told me to look into little bat’s eyes & tell her everything will be ok - just as I would to a cat - while she cut the net from the tree. She then spent two hours disentangling the poor creature from the nylon strands, holding her on her lap & speaking softly to her until she relaxed. The little creature stayed a month with a foster carer until her broken wing tip healed, then was released back into the colony she came from. We don’t net our fruit trees anymore.

Let’s be kind to our bats 🦇. Support our local wildlife rescue. And recognise that their volunteers do skilled & magical work.

#wildlife #bats #FruitTrees #nets #naarm

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/31/bats-in-the-burbs-how-to-give-natures-nighttime-acrobats-a-helping-hand?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It's getting chilly around here, so the chicken run will be serving a dual purpose as a greenhouse. I planted two valencia orange trees to make use of the chicken fertilizer. #backyardchickens 🌱 #permaculture #silvopasture #agroforestry #compost #fruit #fruittrees #homegrown #eggs #forest #trees

Greenhouse/chicken run combo from the back side

Valencia orange trees planted in the dirt behind and protected with a chicken wire fence

Wow! Very cool, @MaQuest !

#SolarPunkSunday #UK #Permaculture #FruitTrees

Free fruit tree planting workshop with Brighton Permaculture Trust
Thursday 6 November 2025, 7.30-9pm
Free online presentation with Q&A
Hands on tree planting at volunteering events. Various dates and locations January – March 2026 TBC.
https://brightonpermaculture.org.uk/fruit-tree-planting/

#SolarPunkSunday #FreeEvents #FruitTrees #TreePlanting #Fruit #Brighton #Permaculture #Trees #BrightonPermacultureTrust

Found this on our fence. A critter of some sort pulled it off our tree, snacked on it, then left it there.

We have an abundance. I’m happy we’re feeding the neighborhood animals. Actually, people walk by and ask for them, too. So we’re feeding lots of beings.

Fruit trees are neat.

#Fruit #FruitTrees #UrbanGarden #FreeFood #HelpYourself #Critters

An Asian pear on the top plank of a fence. It’s dripping from rain and is half eaten, with tiny teeth marks in its flesh.

Cumquats key to 'anti-retirement' for these farmers
By Jennifer Nichols

When Roslyn and Pat McCarthy readied themselves to leave their careers, they were uninspired by spending their "twilight" years on golf courses or bowling greens. Instead, they put their faith in cumquats.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-10-11/cumquats-retirement-plan-for-farming-couple/105867150

#Agriculture #RetirementPlanning #FruitTrees #FruitGrowing #FruitCrops #SmallBusinesses #RegionalCommunities #Horticulture #JenniferNichols

I've never been able to get an avocado to sprout. Sad.

Cleanerperson came in from dumping peelings in the compost bin (size Huge), and announced excitedly that there are four little avocado trees growing in the compost!
She's going to plant three in the pots vacated by tomatoes, and take one.

Off to look up avocado-growing.

#FruitTrees

The Steyning Community Orchard (SCO) aims to restore Steyning’s historic orchards, plant new orchards and encourage the local community to grow and use locally grown fruit
https://steyningcommunityorchard.org/about/

#CommunityOrchards #Trees #FruitTrees #SolarPunkSunday #Steyning #Sussex #Orchards #Fruit

#FruitTrees

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