The Lunatic Farmer

JUNE 2, 2023

The idea is to create something valuable that incentivizes you to keep after the pruning. In the ideal world, you’d line all your fence lines with orchard trees, but the best I’ve been able to do is bring on really useful regular trees. Good trees are valuable. One final thing.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16. But the constant repetition of bending down to plant, weed and set up irrigation and looking up to prune trees and harvest fruit became taxing, she says. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees. Now 20, her new job is “a lot more mellow, ergonomic and efficient,” she says.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

Woolly aphids, belonging to the Eriosomatinae family, are intriguing insects that can wreak havoc on plants in gardens and orchards. Here are some specific control methods: Pruning and Sanitation Regularly prune and remove heavily infested plant parts to prevent the spread of aphids to healthier sections of the plant.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2025

Orcharding requires effort, but the resulting yields of fresh fruit make it all worthwhile. One of the most important aspects of growing fruit trees is pruning. This applies to large commercial and small-scale orchards alike. Knowing how to prune, when to do it, and understanding what youre pruning for is paramount.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine Gemperle, almond farmer and CalCAN advisor recently drove to Sacramento from her orchard in Ceres to testify in support of equipment sharing and sustainable agriculture investments alongside CalCAN staff.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 1, 2024

You may even find a few trees or an orchard. Early European settlers in America brought with them apple seeds, which they planted to begin the first orchards. Most homesteads up and down and across the expanding United States had several apple trees, if not full orchards. A restored orchard of heritage apple trees.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 19, 2023

Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm Growing fruit trees or nut trees on your farm is a great way to be more self-sufficient and a great way to add items to your CSA, use the unwanted fruit to supplement feed for your animals, sell at your local farmers market or for personal use. Fruit trees need lots of sun and space to grow properly.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

” Center: Ramon Torres prunes blueberry bushes at the Tierra y Libertad cooperative. Left: A member of Familias Unidas por la Justicia prunes blackberry bushes in a Sakuma Brothers Farms field. Ana Lopez inspects a tree seedling in a Tierra y Libertad orchard. The culture also changed for women in the community.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plant a holly orchard and let nature do the work for you,” read one brochure. Brown leaves sagged from the tips of branches, and most of the berries had dried up like prunes, black and wrinkled. By the end of the decade, an estimated 300 acres of western Washington were dedicated to holly.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

She pointed to the Philadelphia Orchard Project as an emblem of success. That nonprofit has partnered with schools, churches, public recreation centers, and urban farms to oversee some 68 community orchards across the city. His initial goal, which he described as “lofty and ambitious,” is to plant 20,000 trees by 2030.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. “Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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