This modern life
Originally uploaded by Theorris
The amount of fruit that goes un-harvested in my neighborhood is scandalous. Not far from where I took this shot there is a wonderfully endowed pear tree, heavy-laden with the fruit of a fine summer. Most of it too has fallen to the ground, unpreserved, only later to be scooped up by shovels and thrown into the trash.
that's sad. next summer, you should ask the people if you can harvest their tree. and then get some people together for the harvest. and eat it. or preserve it. or donate it.
ReplyDeleteI heard that those people down in Mt. Pleasant--the Native Wines people--go around to people and ask if they can harvest, then make wine from all manner of fruit.
ReplyDeleteGreat suggestions lis & LisaB. I should probably be proactive on this. I might still, however, report them to the "fruit available here" web sites. They have iPhone apps for it too. The harvesters are supposed to ask for permission to harvest, however.
ReplyDeleteThis very thing KILLS me whenever I see it. I sometimes feel like I need to pick all abandon fruit; of course we can barely keep up with our own peach and pear trees.
ReplyDeleteside note: I once picked all the pears off a huge tree in a house up for rent. I then gave them out to neighbors who wanted them and we kept some. Unfortunately, for some reason, they never ripened. Tore me up to put them in our compost pile.