TODAY IN THE ORCHARD

Today Laura and I worked in the orchards. Laura cleared one of the paths in the “BRC” orchard. The paths have been narrowing over the past few weeks. Without some attention we might not have been able to get to the chicken coop, let alone the apple trees. It’s great to have lots of “companions” in the orchard—we encourage them—but you still need access! Later we worked together weeding and applying Neem oil to the trunks of the young trees in our neighbor Haskells orchard. That orchard is old but includes about 40 young trees we’ve provided to them over the years. The first of those—a Wolf River—is fruiting for the first time.