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A fruit tree for your yard

This past month I found myself critically evaluating every tree in my yard, wondering, "what have you done for ME lately?" Out went one of the hawthornes and the particularly awful poison sumac. In its place will go a couple of cherry trees, and I think I'll put a few fig trees in that sunny spot where blackberries (an invasive species in my region) like to take over if you let 'em. In a few years, my $60 investment will be literally bearing fruit, and whatever I don't eat I'll freeze for cherry muffins and fig preserves all winter long. Less than $100 should save me several hundred in food costs over the next five years -- and mine will be organic, local, and way less thorny than my current options!

sarah gilbert

19/04/08