What a treat, returning to Blue River, OR, to top-graft trees in one of my favorite orchards. It survived the 2020 Holiday Farm fire which burned the church building on one side of it, parsonage on the other, and town next door, to the ground. I love trees that freely feed folk.
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Image of @nick_roultedge top-grafting a plum tree in the orchard located in the grounds of Living Water Family Fellowship, Blue River, OR.
I've been working with and starting food-bank farms and gardens for almost 30 years. Sweet, then, to learn today that the church orchard I've volunteered to prune functions as the nearest thing Blue River, OR, has to a food bank farm. Pentecostal ag? It's in the name! Go @AG_USA!
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Atop an orchard ladder pruning an apple tree in the orchard upon the grounds of Living Waters church in Blue River, OR, today.