Photgraphs from the fruit tour.





Hands stained with both mulberry and prickly pear juice (they remained purple the next day).





Check out the rest of Annie McGuire's photos from our public fruit walking tour.

An email from Annie the day after the tour says,

sarah napier and i picked about 2lbs each today! the trees in the car
lot are incredible -- we barely made a dent in that fruit. there is so
much on the ground that the air smells like wine from the fermenting
berries. i'm chilling the crust for my first pie; we'll see how it
works out.

Can't wait! The car lot she speaks of is the one right next to the garden. They not only give us access to their prolific mulberry tree, they also give us access to their water. As I type this it's raining, but we're learning that there's no good way to predict whether we'll have water one week or not. Until we have a better passive water collection system we're dependent on municipal drinking water to keep the plants alive, and without a tap onsite we're dependent on our extremely generous neighbors. I believe a thank you gift of mulberry jam (or pie!) is in order...


One new food we discovered on our first tour was white mulberries. They have a different, simpler flavor than the red ones, and are deceptive looking. They look almost exactly like unripe mulberries. We only saw one tree (although, since we were looking for red berries we may have overlooked more), it's in the second alley to the east of the garden lot.

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