This week we visit the Bloomington Community Orchard for the planting of a nut grove. Josephine Mc Robbie has a story about a pop-up taco and tamale shop, Harvest Public Media tells us what’s at stake in the glyphosate debate, and Chef D has a fresh idea for strawberries and rhubarb. — Here in Bloomington Indiana, we are lucky to have a community orchard. The Bloomington Community Orchard is an organization that maintains fruit-bearing trees and bushes on a plot of land next to a city park in Bloomington. The trees are planted and cared for by volunteers, and the fruit is freely available to anyone. The orchard is also involved in education programs, community plantings and fruit tree give-aways.
Josh David volunteers with the Bloomington Community Orchard. He is pictured here moving some of the turf dug up for the planting of nut trees on a site close to the BCO’s main site (photo courtesy of BCO)Last year they partnered with the City of Bloomington to plant a nut tree grove on a piece of land between the YMCA and the Winslow little league baseball fields, just a stone’s throw away from the orchard’s main site. It’s a grassy gentle slope just off of a jogging path, and in view of an up-scale subdivision to the East. They planted the grove in stages, with the third and final planting during Memorial Day, weekend, a couple of weeks ago. Earth Eats was onsite for the first planting session on Earth Day, in 2018. Visit the Bloomington Community Orchard website to learn how to get involved.
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