@IntractableLion @aspiringpeasant If it's on Armstrong Road, I likely know it. After lumbering around one up there, a neighbor told me I'd been caught on trail camera by the Oakland PD SWAT team, in one of their favored out-of-town hunting grounds! I farmed for a while at the site of the original County forge.
@brightabyss 1/ It's that time of year we head out and about to explore specifically for long-hanging fruit very often associated with good storability - just now around old farmsteads in the Cascades foothills. Our choicest finds? Unnamed, seedling varieties with superb all round character.
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Chris Homanics with the 100% volunteer-driven Agrarian Sharing Network gathering fruit from one of 40-50 trees we sampled today as part of our traditional late-season adventuring in search of fruit with strong long-keeping-in-storage potential. Here, collecting from a tree established by original homesteaders over a century ago.