Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. 🙃

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    2 days ago

    Have you ever lived in a house with an orchard?

    I have. Three different one, actually. My back is still sore from having to clean them as a kid.

    And the signs I talked about hang on every fence from here the nearest citymarket.

    Both pollen and stinging insects at public places are bad for allergic people.

    That as well, yeah. With it and their messiness, it’s a noble thought to have “free food available” but it’s only a small time of the year, nothing anyone can rely on for food (with an orchard it’s still a huge job to preserve a significant portion of the fruit, jams, pies, etc). So perhaps it’s just better to have neat trees and leave the fruit where there already exists infrastructure for it; supermarkets.