Sunday Shake up

For some reason this week, I can't get fruit trees out of my mind. I feel like we don't have enough fruit trees growing around our country.

I wonder if we had more fruit trees lining the streets would kids be going hungry?

What if we had fruit trees in schools? The kids could go and pick an apple for morning tea. Makes sense right? So why doesn't something so simple happen?

So my challenge to you this week, is to plant a tree. Not just any tree. But something that will bring food to the world.

A pear, apple, orange, nectarine, apricot, plum, nashi, lemon, lime, mandarin, avacado, fig.....the list is endless and depending on where you are, will determine what you can/can't plant.

Also, being NZ in winter, I'm figuring it might not be the best time to plant a new tree, so why not get a gorgeous small plant, pop it in a pot and care for it over winter in a nice sheltered place in the sun, letting it grow, then come summer, you can put it in the ground?

I dunno, this is just one of those way out ideas I have, but I figure if we all do something like this, then it can't hurt right?

Dare ya.

Comments

[Denise Spicer-Boyes]

Brilliant idea - we only have a small section but already have planted a plum, mandarin, feijoa and passionfruit - had a small crop this year but next year they will be overflowing with produce. We plan on placing a box at the gate for our neighbours to come and help themselves

[mandyb]

i got feijoa and lemon!!! but they never seem to work!!! lol!!!

[Doreen Hardy]

Funny you should write this Trina because I was having a similar conversation a couple of days ago. My grandkids are lucky to go to a school with extensive (and I mean extensive) grounds. They have beautiful roses lined up outside the walls of the hall. Why aren't they edible plants. They have a few shade trees around the perimeter. There is room for an orchard, a vineyard. So come on schools, you get with it too. Have a donate an edible plant week and ask parents to bring something along. Go Trina. You're always on the mark for me.