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a factory where trees do the labor and call it dessert
means A piece of land planted with fruit or nut trees, grown deliberately for their crop.
from From Old English 'orceard' (also 'ortgeard'), a compound whose second half is 'geard,' meaning yard or enclosure — the same 'yard' you stand in today. The first half is likely 'ortge,' itself probably borrowed early from Latin 'hortus,' meaning garden (a cousin of our 'horticulture'). So an orchard is, almost literally, a 'garden-yard' — a fenced patch where things were meant to grow.
- clone army
- Most apple trees are grafted clones, not grown from seed
- seed lottery
- Apple seeds grow into wildly different fruit than parent
- ancient origins
- Cultivated orchards date back over 5,000 years
- bee dependent
- Many fruit trees need pollinators or yield nothing
- Johnny myth
- Appleseed planted sour cider apples, not lunchbox snacks
wenatchee valley — washington state apple growing region producing 65% of us apples
provence lavender fields — southern france cultivates 30% of world's lavender
florida citrus belt — produces 90% of us orange juice output