Community Building Tip: Orchards
Aug. 1st, 2020 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithFor my current set of tips, I'm using the list "101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City.
34. Start an urban orchard. This is more of a long-term solution to supporting parks and local agriculture. But isn’t the idyllic vision of sitting under an apple tree a few blocks from your apartment worth the wait? The Chicago Rarities Orchard Project (CROP) will literally take root in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood, in a lot adjacent to one of the area’s main intersections. The planters/planners also have plenty of additional fruit trees growing in a nursery, ready to be spread, Johnny Appleseed-style, to different sites across Chicago.
This is a great idea. Plant trees! Grow food!
In Terramagne, community gardens and orchards are much more popular. Some are public, but a lot of them belong to specific neighborhoods or subdivisions, which reduces crowding on the commons. I know I've shown community gardens, and I think I've mentioned an orchard or a vinyard too.
34. Start an urban orchard. This is more of a long-term solution to supporting parks and local agriculture. But isn’t the idyllic vision of sitting under an apple tree a few blocks from your apartment worth the wait? The Chicago Rarities Orchard Project (CROP) will literally take root in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood, in a lot adjacent to one of the area’s main intersections. The planters/planners also have plenty of additional fruit trees growing in a nursery, ready to be spread, Johnny Appleseed-style, to different sites across Chicago.
This is a great idea. Plant trees! Grow food!
In Terramagne, community gardens and orchards are much more popular. Some are public, but a lot of them belong to specific neighborhoods or subdivisions, which reduces crowding on the commons. I know I've shown community gardens, and I think I've mentioned an orchard or a vinyard too.
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Date: 2020-08-01 10:18 pm (UTC)And it somewhat related news.... looks like someone has found an effective treatment for citrus greening disease!
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/07/07/uc-riverside-discovers-first-effective-treatment-citrus-destroying-disease
Thoughts
Date: 2020-08-01 10:26 pm (UTC):D
>> The main argument against it I've seen is that it would make a mess <<
Fruit produces a mess if it is not eaten by humans and/or wildlife. However, an orchard park is not a place where people would have to go. Those who found fallen fruit unsightly could simply avoid the place during the summer-fall fruit drop season.
>> and/or create an attractive nuisance (because street folk are unsightly doncha know?). <<
Well, that's L-America for you. We can't have nice things because they're illegal. But letting people starve to death is perfectly legal. >_<
>>And it somewhat related news.... looks like someone has found an effective treatment for citrus greening disease!<<
So. Much. Win.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2020-08-02 01:19 am (UTC)As well as socially acceptable. As, apparently, is fostering the economic conditions that will spawn Hoovervilles (What will call them this time.... Trumptowns?) within the next few months.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2020-08-02 01:28 am (UTC)