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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 armyMost apple trees are grafted clones, not grown from seed
seed lotteryApple seeds grow into wildly different fruit than parent
ancient originsCultivated orchards date back over 5,000 years
bee dependentMany fruit trees need pollinators or yield nothing
Johnny mythAppleseed planted sour cider apples, not lunchbox snacks