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> A single apple runs in the $0.30-$0.50 range where I'm at. They're also free for a quarter of the year if god forbid you turn off the TV and walk outside. Sa
by Alex3917 11y ago
> A single apple runs in the $0.30-$0.50 range where I'm at.
They're also free for a quarter of the year if god forbid you turn off the TV and walk outside. Same with cherries for that matter.
- TTPrograms 11y agoSomebody buy this guy a ticket to Detroit or something, jeese.
- Alex3917 11y agoAnd yet Detroit has pretty much the perfect weather for growing apples. I'd imagine there have to be old trees all throughout the city from back when there was money, given that they can easily produce fruit for 100+ years and can go decades with little to no maintenance.
- fractallyte 11y agoAbsolutely right (to whoever downvoted you) - go explore! I've trekked with my bicycle to forgotten orchards and overgrown corners of parks and riverbanks, and found plenty. Even roadsides are laden with wild produce. Some less-trafficked verges are quite OK for foraging.
- fractallyte 11y agoI've found, in my temperate industrialized urban area, an astonishing amount of 'wild' food, all free for the taking: apple, pear, cherry, plum, berries, rose hips, hazelnut, walnut... One fall I picked so many kilograms of apples that I still had a few wrinkled (but edible) left-overs by the following spring - all stored carefully, unrefrigerated, in a cellar. Other fruits are preserved as jellies, or in jars, or simply frozen. It angered me last year to see a fully laden plum tree in a parking lot, with plums squished on the ground, and a row of terraced houses nearby, with kids playing outside... Their stupid parents had ignored the bounty literally on their doorstep.