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RE: Dealing With Abundance in Our Own Ways.
Oh how well I know the excess of both plums and apples! My father, growing up with starvation in the Japanese concentration camps in Indonesia, set up our childhood garden in Australia for over-abundance. In Chiang Mai, Thailand, we have a similar problem with mangoes and FRUIT FLIES. But yes, we have glorious numbers of birds and birdsong due to the over-planting of mulberries. You nailed it with the setting up of the structures (compost, preserving etc) for the overflow. Nice contribution - thank you.
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Ideally we need that overabundance in fruit trees for nature's sake. I have most of my fruit trees protected from birds while fruiting, now because we're the only place in the neighborhood that grows anything edible. It wouldn't be an issue to lose some of the higher fruit to birds, if there were plenty of trees around for them to access. An organic apple farm I once helped at has acres of trees, so they let their trees get a bit tall for hand picking, then the birds can have the top ones and there are no issues with them taking everything. We still need the birds for keeping pest insects under control, so abundance is perfect for that balance and for us to still get something.
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Feeling much better suddenly about my inability to prune the mulberry trees last seasn due to.my shattered arm. 😊🦅 Everything has its purpose. 💚
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