LeelaMaps

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:35 am}
July 3, 2023 at 9:32 am}

Abounding Harvest 🥑 🍋

Avocado, farm, fruit, Orchard

Products include:

pumpkins
onions
tomatoes
peppers
cucumbers
persimmons
pomegranates
kiwis
citrus
avocados (lamb hass)

Abounding Harvest only sells wholesale

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Avocados are moist & salty

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:45 pm}
July 1, 2023 at 5:24 pm}

Schletewitz Family Farms (organic)

farm, Orchard, Saratoga FM source, Schletewitz Family Farms, source

As seen at Saratoga Farmers Market on Saturdays

Products include:

Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots
Plums, Pluots
Grapes
Mandarins
Pomegranates
Vegetables

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:45 pm}
at 5:02 pm}

Allard 🍒 Farms (certified organic)

Allard Farms, farm, Orchard, Saratoga FM source, source

^{booth at Saratoga Farmers Market}

Allard sources products from around California and resells them at local markets.

“At Allard Farms we are serious about providing our customers with only the freshest locally grown produce. All of our products are grown either on our farm or other farms here in California.”

Fruits include:

Cherries
Apricots
Peaches
Nectarines
Plumcots
Pluots
Pecotums
Nectaplums
Apriums

Pomegranates
Persimmons
Tomatoes
Fias
Grapes
Apples
Pears
Asian Pears
French Prunes

Nuts include:

Walnuts
Almonds
Pistachios

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:45 pm}
at 3:21 pm}

CMC Farms

CMC Farms, farm, Orchard, Saratoga FM source, source

^{booth at Saratoga Farmers Market}

Products include:

figs
apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums
mandarins, oranges
mulberries
dried fruits

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 2nd, 2023 at 6:13 pm}
at 3:04 pm}

🍊 Bill Ferry Ranches

Bill Ferry Ranches, farm, orange juice, oranges, Orchard, Saratoga FM source, Vineyard FM source

Bill Ferry Ranches grows a lot of juicy oranges, which they sell as well as fresh squeezed orange juice

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:45 pm}
at 2:37 pm}

Resendiz Farms

farm, Los Gatos FM Source, Orchard, Resendiz Farms, Saratoga FM source, source

Resendiz Farms is a conventional farm that grows diverse fruits and employs families to pick and distribute across California.

crops include:

Plums, pluots
peaches (yellow, white)
Fuyu persimmons
tomatoes
melons (piel de sapo, cantaloupe, Tuscan, watermelon)

I have contacted the farm and they said that they use RoundUp/glyphosate to kill weeds and insect hormones to control pests.

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:45 pm}
April 8, 2023 at 5:50 am}

Durian Farm

durian, farm, Orchard, source, Unexpected Fruit Tree

Nearby, at Mama’alawe Farm

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 5th, 2022 at 5:18 pm}
July 5, 2022 at 5:17 pm}

Orchard

Apple, catalina cherry, Lupin Gardens, Lupin Lodge, Orchard, persimmon, plum

By leela

^{_{Modified on July 3rd, 2023 at 9:45 pm}
June 26, 2022 at 11:00 am}

stepladder 🪜 🥑 avocados

Avocado, Campbell FM Source, farm, Orchard, Saratoga FM source, Seed Source, source, Stepladder Creamery, Unexpected Fruit Tree

Stepladder farm grows avocados, cherimoyas, and passionfruit.

By leela

^{_{Modified on May 28th, 2023 at 6:31 pm}
March 27, 2022 at 8:30 am}

NFT: Vo

Collaborators, compost, ecovillage, Forage, NFT, Orchard, prices, sustainability

Make an offer on this New Fruit Tree

This is “Vo,” a new variety of avocado tree that is suspended in water on my desk.

Vo came from an exquisitely rich & buttery organic Hass avocado.

All Hass avocados came from branches of the original Hass avocado (b. 1926 La Habra Heights, CA) that were grafted onto wild rootstock.
All fruit trees grown from seed are a new variety of fruit tree.
Vo is likely a hybrid of Hass (Type A) and an unknown Type B avocado variety.

The adopter will receive Vo’s location on a map notes platform, where they can communicate about Vo’s care and arrange a visitation.

I will accept an adoption offer on Earth Day: 4-22-22

Offer Goals (accumulative):

– 0.004 ETH: Basic Care Vo is planted in containers, gradually increasing in size, with potting soil mix

– 0.04 ETH: Fruit Box Adopter gets 10lbs of Vo’s fruit (in approximately 3-20 years)

– 0.08 ETH: Boost Vo’s container is amended with compost (improves growth)

– 0.16 ETH: Quality Assurance Vo’s container is amended with biochar compost (improves health & growth)

– 0.32 ETH: Visitation Perks Vo gets planted in a sanctuary with compost bins and fruit tree neighbors

– 3 ETH: Taste the Horizon of Possibilities Vo’s handler hosts a rare & tropical fruit tasting event for the adopter and up to 30 of their friends

– 16 ETH: Crowd Mapping Vo’s map notes platform gets features required for scaling up adoption

– 30 ETH: Dance with the Plants Vo’s handler runs a touring EcoFest on blighted lands with workshops on remediating soil, sowing seeds and tracking activity in Vo’s map notes platform

– 165 ETH: GrowLoco Vo gets a locally foraged foods cafe near their site

– 300 ETH: EcoAdventurers Club Vo’s platform hosts a planting adventure game for kids of all ages to compost and grow plants to produce free local food and stabilize the climate

– 1650 ETH: Microlympics Vo’s platform is used for diet-based physical competitions to study the effects of consumption and lifestyle habits

– 3000 ETH: GrowTrack Vo’s platform supports input of IoT devices to track home business inventories and fruit tree yields; generate locally-foraged food delivery chain

– 16500 ETH: California Proposition: Fire Abatement Food Forest: fund campers and aircrafts to deposit seeds and compost concentrates on dry grassy hillsides

– 30000 ETH: Vo for President Vo runs for president of the United States of America on a platform of free fruit for campers who compost & sow seeds on invasive-dominated land

– 500000 ETH: Free Food + Stable Climate Data from Vo’s map notes platform will be analyzed for purchasing & distributing compost, seeds & plants to optimize human health & wellbeing in the US, its territories, and nations whose citizens use the open source EcoActivity platform

Make an offer on this New Fruit Tree

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By leela

^{_{Modified on May 5th, 2021 at 5:22 pm}
May 5, 2021 at 5:21 pm}

Bernard Ranch

farm, Orange, Orange Tree, Orchard, pesticide-free

Bernard Ranch is a pesticide-free citrus orchard.

By leela

^{_{Modified on April 11th, 2022 at 11:43 pm}
April 9, 2021 at 8:21 pm}

Here There Gardens

Apple Tree, Bee, biochar, biochar compost, Collard Greens, Community, encampment, flax, Garden, Kale, lambsquarter, Mustard Greens, Orchard, Public

The Here There Encampment has several gardens that began in March of 2020, when campmember Tim, with the encouragement of Leela, began tending the narrow strip of grassy land between the sidewalk and the BART tracks. It started with a bit of tilling, some overgrown onions, and mustard seeds from a nearby garden.

Over time, other camp members took interest in gardening, and camp supporters gave plants that needed new homes.

The Here There garden tenders have learned that they do not need to water the plants, as they implement the indigenous Amazonian practice of composting with “biochar,” activated charcoal added to decomposing biomass. In line with modern research, the remediated Here There soil supports diverse life forms and induces drought-tolerance, transforming the region into a lush polyculture for the enjoyment of passersby.

Their various flowering plants attract pollinators and birds that are uncommon in human-occupied land, despite Here There being a small stretch of land between an active BART line and a busy traffic corridor.

The Here There Encampment serves as a donation distribution center for the nearby homeless population. All in need are provided food, blankets, and access to their solar charging station.

Despite the support they provide for countless homeless people and their local ecosystem, Here There faces perpetual threat of eviction by the City of Berkeley, which has approved plans to expand the traffic corridor.

Meanwhile, many young fruit and nut trees are spreading roots in the Here There gardens.