free fruit

[airstreamike]

front yard fruit trees are a unlimted supply of free orangs, apples most never use all the tree{s} grow and drop on the ground if i see some one in the front yard or driveway i ask " can i pick up all those apples on the grond" ,say" i have a horse or compost pile at home "they say go ahead " if im not home go right ahead " over 75% are good and last for weeks share them with others

 

[Reducto]

Most people with fruit or berry bushes are very happy to get rid of the extras! Fallen apples stay there for ages, rotting and attracting insects. If you want something to add to your good deed tally for the year, call around to shelters and food banks to see if they want extra fruit. Collect as much as you can from the neighborhood, drop off 90% of it and keep 10% for yourself.

If you don't want to go around knocking post something on freecycle.

 

[c_hasbeen]

I am always amazed at how fruit trees are no longer desired by people.

When I was young they were very important and I do remember getting in trouble for craling under a fence and getting an apple when I was 4 or 5 years ols.

Now fruit falls on the ground and rots.

people cut the tree down because they would rather use it for smoking at the cook out.

I love fruit trees, I love wild plumb bushes, I love what nature gives me

 

[highdesertranger]

I am amazed also. here in so cal where almost any fruit bearing tree will grow people are obsessed with non fruit bearing palms. even the cities plant cr*p trees. why plant fruit trees when the supermarts have everything you want. highdesertranger

 

[Reducto]

The thing I miss most about my old house is the plum tree. The apples were good too, but man those plums were amazing! I'd get about 1000 of them off the one tree and they'd last 2 weeks after being picked. I dehydrated and ate what I could then gave away the extras, meeting some cool people in the process. Even the apples with bugs in them got snapped up by someone who had horses.

A closed grocery store had a different variety of plum that ripened a month earlier than mine. They were smaller and not as plentiful but it made for a nice Sunday afternoon picking a bag full.

My neighbor had identical trees to mine and spent all Summer bitching about having to pick up after them.

 

[ccbreder]

After being assured by the county agriculture agent that all crab apples are edible, we gathered apples from a Flowering Crab Apple tree. They were the size of marbles. Cooked down they made a excellent apple butter and also jelly.