Eat the view

 From the New York Times comes a story on people who are turning their landscapes edible by planting fruit trees >

“Nothing is more local than the backyard, after all, and home orcharding, as the practice is sometimes called, guarantees freshness and cuts the energy costs for transportation to nil.”

One of the best pieces of advice is to plan your backyard orchard so that your harvest is spread out over time, instead of having a too large bumper crop of any one thing, so that you can have a continual supply of your own fruit throughout the summer and fall.

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