Such a great read, @riverflows! Got me quite enthusiastic! I know, land ownership is an issue with so many sides...! Honestly, that would be a topic in and of itself, because I really don't know what's worse: endless committee discussions without any resolution possible, or "benevolent chief" who somehow changes along the way to be not so benevolent.
I really enjoyed your discussion on common areas and gardens. (Now that I think about it, this could be also a great topic on its own.) After all, shouldn't this be the purpose of public areas? Instead of a zone outside the private domain, and thus outside anyone's responsibility?
Yes!!! We have a Facebook group that is encouraging people to plant fruit trees on nature strios, which are essentially public property owned by the council. Thus, the householder takes care of the tree, but the fruit is public property. We have a empty bit of council land over our fence and next year i am going to petotion them to plant a community orchard there. I am happy to prune and care for the trees if they foot the initial cost. More community food spaces!!
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Lucky you, for the luxury of having fruit trees on public property. I remember in Hungary a few years ago, town councils were vehemently against them. In fact, they even cut down fruit trees that had been planted decades ago to replace them with ornamentals. The reason? Because "fruit trees throw garbage," meaning their ripe fruit. Talking about insanity...
That is CRAZY. Melbourne values its fruit trees. Its the post war Greek and Italian communities... I think they made it a thing!
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Oh, Hungarians used to value their fruit trees. That's how they got planted in the first place. But that was before the current trend drove everyone insane.