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My father has a small orchard in Maine and he gifted me several trees including a clone of a "lost" variety called the "Canadian Strawberry". https://fedcoseed
by jakedata 3y ago
My father has a small orchard in Maine and he gifted me several trees including a clone of a "lost" variety called the "Canadian Strawberry".
https://fedcoseeds.com/trees/canadian-strawberry-apple-112 https://fedcoseeds.com/trees/canadian-strawberry-apple-112
This tree is growing robustly alongside my numerous pawpaw trees and I look forward to getting some fruit in the next year or so. He makes cider every year from the apples he collects from all the feral trees in his area. It is always amazing to appreciate the difference in flavor from the different varieties he harvests.
- Kon-Peki 3y ago> He makes cider every year from the apples he collects from all the feral trees in his area. Are pests problematic when making cider? Do you have to throw away anything that has a bug in it?
- boopdewoop 3y agoYou can leave the fruits on the ground, But If you would not eat an apple, why would you drink it. Dont use fruit with pests in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRMK3dA2kI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRMK3dA2kI
- jakedata 3y agoYou don't want to use the nasty ones for sure, but every plant product you eat probably has some insect protein in it already, so it is a judgement call. The best thing to do with windfall apples is to turn them into pork.
- guynamedloren 3y agoPork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?
- nradov 3y agoSure. If you keep pigs (and chickens) then there is essentially zero food waste.
- alt227 3y agoThis is how efficient farms have worked for centuries. Orchards full of fruit trees, with sheep grazing the grass underneath, bees pollinating the flowers, and pigs in the scrubland next door to feed the windfalls to. Maximising land use to its full potential, unlike the farming monocultures of today.
- gruez 3y ago>Maximising land use to its full potential, unlike the farming monocultures of today. "Maximising land use to its full potential" (whatever that means) =/= whatever is economically optimal (ie. factoring in inputs like labor)
- hinkley 3y agoWe should be feeding pigs and chickens insects. They’re omnivores. It’s weird that we are trying to feed them entirely or mostly grain.
- pfdietz 3y agoIt's not weird; grain is cheap. Totally understandable.
- ByQuyzzy 3y agoThey'd die, just like people. Mammals in general can't digest chitin. There aren't any human populations that consume a significant amount of insect protien. It's just a trick to demoralize and humiliate the peasantry. Bugs literally aren't even fit to be fed to pigs. But I'd enjoy force feeding somebody like you more than you could handle!
- amenhotep 3y agoYou are a very strange person.
- hinkley 3y agoAre you a pig farmer? Because this has been studied many times and you’d think they’d notice. This is one situation where I can say, “how can a billion Chinese people be wrong?” without sarcasm. Roasted grasshopper is sold as a snack. Whole grasshopper. People aren’t dying from it. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9165 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9165 https://www.wired.com/story/insects-pigs-poultry/ https://www.wired.com/story/insects-pigs-poultry/ - EU approved insects for pigs and poultry in 2022 and I’m pretty sure there are farmers in Europe.
- ByQuyzzy 3y agoUgh, disgusting. No more European cured pork products for me!
- geon 3y agoPretty sure pigs eat grubs the find when they root in the dirt.
- Modified3019 3y agoCodling moths are definitely going to be an issue. When they burrow around in the apple, they allow for rot and the varying amounts and types of mycotoxins. Definitely not acceptable to drink.
- declan_roberts 3y agoHard cider from Apple with some CM actually taste better than "clean" sprayed apples. I think the moth proteins might add something to the fermentation.