Free Food For All!

[Ant]

This flyer was written by a friend of mine....

Would you like
FREE FRESH FRUIT & NUTS
all year round?

Here is one way to bring it to fruition.
There are grassy areas outside most homes. If food bearing trees were to be planted in these areas then there would be enough food for everyone. Imagine a fruit or nut tree
on the nature strip or in the front yard of homes all over Australia. The streets would
be lined with food bearing trees. Fresh food would be available for all.

Oranges, apples, bananas, avocados, berries, walnuts, mangoes, lemons, almonds, pears, macadamias, plums, pecans, cherries, figs, olives, mulberry, etc.

If only every one in four planted a food bearing tree outside the place that they were
living in there would be enough for all. Trees produce a lot of fruit!

What if the council planted fruit and nut trees instead of ornamentals along the nature strips? What if each reserve, park and garden was planted with fruit bearing trees?
But who wants to rely on governments for their food supply?

Doing It Yourself

The benefits of DIY:
The trees can be grown organically, without poisons such as pesticides and
herbicides. Councils often spray vegetation with these poisons.
By planting the trees yourself, you know that they are organic.
For how can putting poisons into the ecosystem be beneficial to anyone?

We have begun by planting a mandarin tree in the unfenced front yard where we live.
It is right by the nature strip so people walking past can help themselves to its fruit.
Just one tree out the front of a home can provide a lot of free food for all to enjoy.

Benefits of food bearing trees lining the streets.

Community interaction – people can get together and help each other to plant and harvest and share knowledge about which food bearing trees are suitable for a particular area's climate and size of land.
Free healthy food available for everyone.
Reduced food bills.
Reduced petrol use – there are no transport costs when food is growing a short stroll from your front door.
They say that “fresh is bestâ€Â, what can be fresher than picking and eating from the tree.


Community vegetable gardens could be planted on vacant land. New housing developments could be planted out with fruit and nut trees and areas can be set aside for community vegetable gardens. It is already being done in some parts of Australia:

http://www.aldinga-artsecovillage.com.au/


Eating simply to simply live,

To my body I do give,

Nature’s bounty, a loving gift,

A source of nourishment to uplift.

~

For a truth that I have found,

Is that food grown in the ground,

Gives everything the body does need,

To perform each and every deed.

:shades

 

[ephesus32]

I like creative ideas like this. Can't think of flaws except maybe attracting wild animals that know that the fruit is available where houses are, thus where people are.

 

[Carol Lowery]

This is why I planted fruit trees in my yard, for the hard times to come. With the economy, tight times, helping families in need, etc. etc. I have an apple tree, pear tree, peach tree, and all three abundantly bear fruit. I have to use 2x4's to support the branches to keep them from breaking there's so much fruit. This pass summer I bet there were at least a couple of thousand apples on my tree. They were in clutters, and had my branches laying on the ground, and I had a terrible time getting them up off the ground and supporting the branches with 2x4's. It took four of us per branch to get them up.

The Lord just richly bless us with a bounty of fruit. My peach tree was the same way on it's second year in the ground. The pear tree behaved itself somewhat to where it didn't need support, but the pears were huge! But I also go around the outter edge of the branch growth and take my steel rod and hammer it about foot and half in the ground, whallow it out and I do that completely around each tree about 3 feet apart from each other on it's outter perimeter, and then pour epsom salt into the holes and cover it up. This purifies the ground, and the fruit grows like crazy, and I also use the rotten fruit on the ground, I'll rake around to the base of the tree for fertilizer. So if any of you have a fruit tree that doesn't bear fruit, try it! And the following year you'll have so much fruit you won't know what to do with it all. I let my neighbors pick all they want and they don't even make a dent in the amount of fruit on my trees. But make sure it's on the outter perimeter of the tree growth/branches and no closer.