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  1. A grafted mango tree can begin producing fruit years earlier than a seed-grown tree.

    That means faster food security, faster shade, and faster ecosystem recovery for schools and communities.

    Youth-led grafting projects are climate action in practical form
    #Photography #linux #agriculture #fruittrees #activists #gardening #forestry #nature #biodiversity #environment #mastodon #ClimateAction #fediverse #foodproduction #greenland #sustainability #ecology #ecosystem #graftingplants #plants #hunger

  2. African Peach Tree grows ruby red fruit that look like giant strawberries on the inside and are said to taste like apples, strawberries, and pineapples mixed together. This is a green fruit still growing. Maybe when they’re ripe we can try some. 📸 mine #photography #fruittrees #fruit

  3. I moistened and removed the skins of the seeds on everything that was up today. 7 pots of plums growing. I was worried the dry tops would shrink wrap them. In the wild they'd be coming out of the pit which I assume would be stuck to skin part. Much easier than doing this with pepper seedlings.

    #plums #JapanesePlum #GrownFromSeed #FruitTrees #orchard

  4. There might be some pears set, not that the trees are big enough to support them. I might end up letting a few grown and bag them and tie the bags to stakes. Comice and Bosc. They both looks like they have some vigor this year too, lots of new growth pushing out.

    #pears #FruitTrees #orchard #GrowYourOwn #gardening #April26

  5. A couple of the plum pots are showing some green and a lot of them are showing signs of pushing the soil up.

    #plums #JapanesePlum #GrownFromSeed #FruitTrees #orchard

  6. It's all about the plums.

    The old Santa Rosa, the new air layered from it Santa Rosa, Brooks, and Imperial Epineuse plum trees. More in the alt text.

    #orchard #gardening #plums #FruitTrees #April13 #SantaRosaPlum #ImperialEpineusePlum #BrooksPlum #GrowYourOwn #AirLayering

  7. Hey #VictoriaBC & area folks!

    This month we have a Spring Orchard Tour coming up on Sunday April 19th from 2pm-3pm and a new Workshop called A Year in the Life of a Fruit Tree, which will cover an introduction to year round fruit tree maintenance with a special focus on holistic management of pest and disease issues, on April 26th from 1pm-3pm. You can register for both of these now!

    eventbrite.ca/e/spring-orchard

    eventbrite.ca/e/a-year-in-the-

    #WellandCommunityOrchard #nonprofit #CommunityOrchard #OrchardPark #Stewardship #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #ViewRoyal #YYJ #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PhotoDocumentation #FruitTrees #FoodEquity #CultivatingCommunities #LifecyclesProjectSociety #Spring #Workshops #OrchardTour

  8. Have you ever tasted a #pluot #fruit before?

    Pluots /ˈpluːɒt/ are later generations of complex hybrid between the Japanese plum, Prunus salicina (providing the greater amount of parentage), and the apricot, Prunus armeniaca.[6][7] The fruit's exterior has smooth skin closely resembling that of a plum. Pluots were developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger.[8]

    Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluot

    They're one of the 1st #FruitTrees to blossom in this area of the South Island. These are their #flowerbuds & early #blossoms 🤍

    lifecyclesproject.ca/our-proje

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #FoodEquity #nonprofit #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEducation #CommunityConnecting #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #ViewRoyal #YYJ #VictoriaBC #CommunityOrchard #SignsOfSpring #LifecyclesProjectSociety #bloomscrolling #photography #FruitsEducation

  9. We have one last #Winter #pruning #workshop available - next weekend.

    Learn about dormant season fruit tree pruning with live demos at the beautiful #WellandCommunityOrchard.

    This workshop will cover an introduction to the basics of dormant season pruning for a range of fruit trees and vines, with a particular focus on apples. It will also include demonstrations of pruning techniques on one of the many trees at Welland.

    Please register in advance:
    lifecyclesproject.ca/event/win

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #FoodEquity #nonprofit #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEducation #CommunityConnecting #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FruitTrees #VictoriaBC #YYJ #ViewRoyal #Saanich

  10. I love working with Ruby 😀
    She's our newest young intern, working as an orchard assistant. Ruby is also neurodivergent on the spectrum & is disabled too - we understand each other very well & work well together✌️
    We met a year ago, at past volunteer work parties. I started working for LifeCycles, in August. My contract runs til end of March.

    lifecyclesproject.ca/

    #PeopleWithDisabilities #Diversity
    #CommunityOrchard #Pruning #FruitTrees #LifecyclesProjectSociety #nonprofit #ViewRoyal #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Intern #HandsOnLearning

  11. I love working with Ruby 😀
    She's our newest young intern, working as an orchard assistant. Ruby is also neurodivergent on the spectrum & is disabled too - we understand each other very well & work well together✌️
    We met a year ago, at past volunteer work parties. I started working for LifeCycles, in August. My contract runs til end of March.

    lifecyclesproject.ca/

    #PeopleWithDisabilities #Diversity
    #CommunityOrchard #Pruning #FruitTrees #LifecyclesProjectSociety #nonprofit #ViewRoyal #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Intern #HandsOnLearning