Went out tonight with a guerrilla arborist and planted pawpaw seeds along various waterways!

Pawpaws are a local native deciduous fruit bearing tree. (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimin…) Not to be confused with papaya (also called pawpaws by some). These are green skinned fruits with yellow fruit inside. They taste kind of like sweet sticky melons with a hint of avocado? They taste amazing.

Their seeds are quite large and they require a period of freezing over winter so they'll germinate in spring.

This guerrilla arborist harvested seeds from last year, put them in a baggy with some sawdust and a little bit of water and chilled them in the fridge over the winter. We planted them today.

They'll sprout in about six months and start producing fruit in about six years.

I intend to harvest a lot of seeds this year and begin planting in earnest next year.

We're building out the local food forests.

Folks should eat for free.

What native fruit bearing or food producing plants and trees are in your area?

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Freu!

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Went to the community garden with the kids to do some annual maintenance and help install some accessible raised gardens.

These are high enough that you can plant without stooping so low to the ground. It also allows wheelchair users to roll up to them and plant without having to get out of their chair.

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