[Pil-pc-oceania] Urban Wild food Gardens

[Meadows, Joel]

Dear Susan,
I often find that the quality of wild harvest is better, and almost always more abundant (fruit per tree) than my managed, prunned and netted (if I get to it before the possums do) trees. It makes me think that Fukiama San (of the One Straw Revolution) was right about not pruning trees and letting things go a bit wild to get the best out of natural systems.

Joel Meadows


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Sent: Wed 1/24/2007 1:47 PM
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Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] Urban Wild food Gardens
 
Just to let you know the Blue Mountains Slow Food Group have a Fruit Tree Register. They simply advertised for people with fruit that was not being harvested or knowledge of trees on vacant blocks to come forward and they could share in the whole local food thing; usually returned as jam...
I for one harvest from fruit trees on council land, the plums this year have been great and the apples are just coming into season. Irritatingly they are often better than the fruit from my own trees.

Susan Girard