ByteOnBikesJan 24

Johnny Appleseed planting apple trees for kids to eat

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Show threadrumbaJan 25
If you made public fruit trees, someone would try to pick them clean and sell it at a fruit stand 20 miles away.
Show threadOstrichgrifJan 25
Yeah I think the only way around that would be to plant so many trees that the fruit is basically worthless. Probably wouldn’t work in places with high population density
Show threadrumba
Rotting fruit is also a massive problem :) One of my relative had this HUGE fucking pear tree. When it hit pear season, they were begging people to come and take all they could. They would beg food pantries to organize, come and pick.
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Show threadeestileibJan 25
Canning, freezing, salting, curing, drying, baking … Aaaaaaaaa there are still more!
Show threadStabbithaJan 26
Have pear tree, can confirm. I used to fill my dumpster twice with rotten fallen pears. I figured out a new tactic though: let them fall, then leave the back gate open so the urban deer can come eat them.