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Welcome to the online community of the Holistic Orchard Network. Join with other growers to explore what it takes to grow healthy fruit, find organic inspiration, and make new tree-minded friends. The cutting edge discussion in our forum is geared towards folks growing fruit as part of their living, and certainly open to all to read and learn. Wassail! |
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| Sensible Equipment | 206 | 4Mar |
| Organic Thinning | 38 | 2Mar |
| Good Fruit Marketing | 96 | 28Feb |
| Bug by Bug | 322 | 27Feb |
| Spray Nuance | 277 | 23Feb |
| Breeding Flavorful Fruit | 2 | 19Feb |
| Understory Management | 137 | 19Feb |
| Pruning | 112 | 18Feb |
| Tree Fruit Nutrition | 112 | 15Feb |
| Bacterial Opportunists | 84 | 14Feb |
| Grafting | 153 | 13Feb |
| Orchard Systems | 111 | 11Feb |
| Fungal Pathogens | 237 | 11Feb |
| Apples | 127 | 8Feb |
| Just Talk | 444 | 28Jan |
| Starting an Orchard | 81 | 27Jan |
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You have found the index to our online orchard community, and therefore the perfect place to begin exploring. Position your cursor over any of the forum links, give a click, and a new window opens. Have fun learning more about growing healthy fruit!
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'Tis the season to be thinking about ordering trees and rootstock. Network members offering select varieties can be found in our listing of Bioregional Nurseries. Premium business sponsors include St. Lawrence Nurseries, Trees of Antiquity, and Fedco Trees. Planting trees shows we have hope for better days ahead!
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I found a good deal on a 500g Durand airblast sprayer and now that I have access to a 75 hp tractor I'm sorely tempted to get it. My little 23 hp Kubota and 200g Rears Pul Tank worked great but now th...
- Nathaniel Bouman posted: 3Mar |
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Trademarked apple varieties are weaving their way into supermarket chains all over. I'd be curious to grow EverCrisp, given it's grower origins through the Midwest Apple Improvement Association – thou...
- Michael Phillips posted: 19Feb |
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Last year we experienced 17-year periodical cicadas, in the form of Brood IX, for the first time at our current orchard location. Being that the coming of Brood X in early summer 2021 is starting to ...
- Brittany Kordick posted: 18Feb |
Our Portal Page
is the table of contents for our online orchard community, and therefore the perfect place to begin exploring. Position your cursor over any of the links, give a click, and a new window opens. We invite you to poke around, have fun, and to read more about our basic site protocols.Tree Supplies Unlimited
Check out these grower resources for links to suppliers of nursery stock, spray products, fungal foods, insect traps, and more. We’re here to help both community and home orchardists grow good fruit.
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a snapshot from one of our Grower Profiles
Hemlock Grove FarmWest Danby, New YorkBrian Caldwell writes: “Managing our understory for lots of flowering broadleaf 'weeds' such as mints, Queen Anne's lace, clovers, etc. seems to help quite a bit with insect pests. We do this by waiting until late May for the first orchard mowing, which is done with a sickle bar mower. This practice encourages regrowth of broadleafs.” The Network becomes all the more engaging as orchardists get to know each other better. Posting a grower profile allows other growers to learn about your farm, your trees, your philosophy. > |
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