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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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| Bug by Bug | 321 | 23Feb |
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| Sensible Equipment | 204 | 22Feb |
| Breeding Flavorful Fruit | 2 | 19Feb |
| Understory Management | 137 | 19Feb |
| Pruning | 112 | 18Feb |
| Tree Fruit Nutrition | 112 | 15Feb |
| Bacterial Opportunists | 84 | 14Feb |
| Grafting | 153 | 13Feb |
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| Fungal Pathogens | 237 | 11Feb |
| Apples | 127 | 8Feb |
| Just Talk | 444 | 28Jan |
| Starting an Orchard | 81 | 27Jan |
| Historical Fruit Notes | 5 | 25Jan |
| Cider Apples | 125 | 25Jan |
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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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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 |
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We seem to have lost effectiveness on codling moth with Entrust on one of our two sites. I sprayed twice at max rates last summer to hit the second flight, timed by pheremone traps, and we still had ...
- Brian Caldwell posted: 16Feb |
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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.In Pursuit of Righteous Living
Get your community orchard, cidery, bioregional nursery, or tree stewardship business on our logo-rich grower listings. Promoting good livelihood is a core mission of the Holistic Orchard Network.
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a snapshot from one of our Grower Profiles
Vista Ridge OrchardQuilcene, WashingtonKaren Brindle writes: “Our philosophy is to promote the health and happiness of each tree in an all embracing way. We strive (and sweat!) to support the fruit trees so that they can grow the most nutrient rich fruit possible without any chemicals.” 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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