Tree Planting Party

What to do when you have close to 500 fruit and nut trees to plant?  Call on your friends (especially those without farms) and promise to feed them!  Sixteen of us planted 430 fruit trees on Sunday – while the kids free ranged – and the orchard looks great.  We could really use some rain in the next week (quite the opposite of the 2011 endless spring rain).

Got down to 30 degrees in the orchard last night, not a temperature to worry about.  John didn’t even light the brush piles.  The plums are finishing their blooms; the pears, cherries, and gooseberries are in full bloom; and the apples and currants are just beginning.  It looks and smells beautiful at our home orchard.

All they need is a rock pile.