Orchard Blog and Discussion Forum

Welcome to the interaction corner of Grow Organic Apples! Here's where you can post orchard questions to other members, get downright poetic with observations on the community blog, and create your own orchard profile.

Change is coming to our discussion forum as we establish this interactive portion of the Holistic Orchard Network at another server. Many great conversations can still be found at our previous set-up at grou.ps despite the diminished functions now found there. We've declined to continue to pay the monthly fee for their "silver plan" given all sorts of unsolved issues around email notifications and other bugs in the software. The new set-up will better allow all comers -- whatever your growing experience -- as we establish a broader range of forum opportunities aimed at pleasing beginners and grizzled veterans alike. You'll see. . . just know it won't be until March 2012 till we have this up and running.

Meanwhile, this is what you need to know to view the previous forum: Skip the dysfunctional home page and click the Discussion tab in the top menu bar. This takes you to the Category Index where you can access all the previous message chains by topic. We strongly suggest you save any messages to which you might want to refer to again.

Everyone interested in joining the new forum will find information about creating a member account on this page when things are ready. Those of you with an existing member account at the grou.ps forum must do the very same so don't assume otherwise. We'll make an announcement of this as well in coming editions of The Community Orchardist newsletter. Do contact Michael if you'd like to play a role in shaping this healthy orcharding resource for fruit growers.