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by sapote 9y ago
This is a terrible idea. Growing plants sustainably requires soil and sun. And good tasting produce requires both. Two minutes thought about it from a whole-systems perspective, and maybe a bit of common sense, would have told them that
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by sapote 9y ago
Michael Pollan's less known book, The Botany of Desire, is an excellent read and examines four crops -- one of them the Apple -- that have shaped human history.
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by sapote 9y ago
Not sure I understand.
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by sapote 9y ago
One might think that if one were to read a wikipedia entry on it. But it's not true -- that's only a property of eating the leaves or seeds, not the fruit.
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by sapote 9y ago
Sure...but if they want Apples, at least they could plant some interesting Apples. Instead of Granny Smith, maybe some Brushy Mountain Limbertwig or Hawaii or Fukunishiki or ...?
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by sapote 9y ago
None of the fruit trees they are planting are native to California. If they wanted to plant native edibles they'd be stuck with a pretty limited selection of berries and nuts. Edited to add: White Sapote and Avocado are about as close
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by sapote 9y ago
"Muffly, who had been sensitive to the native growth of the region for years, got it immediately. “That’s what I’ve been doing — planting fruit trees, oak trees,” he said." The thing that's funny about it is that the pre-sili
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by sapote 9y ago
By the way, for those who are curious, here's a list of fruit trees that they planted at the new Apple campus: http://www.cityfarmer.org/treesapple.jpg (Edit: the list is from several years ago, so no idea if this is a
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by sapote 9y ago
Disappointed by your response given that I've been reading here for ages and figured I'd weigh in on something I know a lot about...but ok. To respond to your point: I think there's probably a good reason he chose what he did
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by sapote 9y ago
There have been so many articles about the trees planted in the new Apple campus, and how this was somehow groundbreaking, but it's actually been pretty disappointing. I've seen some lists of trees, especially fruit trees, that t