March 04, 2007
Save An Orchard
On Saturday Timber and I volunteered at an orchard in Cupertino as part of a volunteer partnership between Apple and Village Harvest. Fittingly, the orchard was one that grows apples and pears. Village Harvest takes fruit from orchards and backyards and then gets it to food banks so that the food goes to the people that need it the most. Our activity on Saturday consisted mostly of taking compost and distributing it to the apple trees in the orchard as well as some pruning. That meant a lot of shoveling steaming compost into buckets and then carrying them through the orchard and sprinkling the compost above the root systems of the trees. Some of the other volunteers built small fences around some of the younger trees to protect them from deer.