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Adiós Allison!

May 19, 2020 Allison got a radish. After a year and a half of hard labor, she walked away with a radish. Now it’s a nice radish, for a very nice person. Notice that grin. As if I had given her a new pole-pruner or something. Her smile is natural and so is her sense […]

Off With Its Head!

March 3, 2017 The bold Honeycrisp is too tall! “Bring down the height and the apples are within reach, plus the ladder can stay in the shed.” We all nod with approval. Ingela is convincing. Eight of us gathered in February to enjoy Ingela’s annual pruning class. She walked around each tree, backed up, pondered, […]