Community Orchard

Basics

• A small Orchard that is Collectively Owned / Collectively Managed by the community
• Usually works on (mostly?) Volunteer Labor
• The resulting food is usually given to Food Banks and/or distributed amongst the community

Backround

• Typically if one family/obuilding on a street in a suburb has a Citrus Tree the group has more oranges etc than they know what to do with a few days to a week or so into Harvest Season
• Thus usually the whole street, and friends of the group often share the harvest of that one tree
• If one were to plant 3-10 Trees Alongside a Community Garden this would make labor easier, while still allowing for Local Food
• Also trees can provide shade/shelter for certain crops (See Agroforestry )

Yeild Predictions

Northern Florida

Trees of Intrest

• Orange Trees
• Lemon Trees
• Lime Trees
• Grafted Mixed Citrus Trees

To-Do

• Determine Minimal Tree Spacing / Optimal Tree Spacing
• Determine Varieties and their:
  • Pollenation Charachteriestics
  • Optimal Enviroments (Soil, Sun, etc)
  • Yeild
• Based of off the analysis of on-site space of Potential Projects Near "User: Eric" determine a good layout for potential community orchards

Internal Links

• Community Garden
• Hazle (Need to see where this grows, along with other nut trees, as these can make valuable foodstuffs)
• Lot Size (May be of use for area predictions) for
  • Utilization of Empty Lots as Community Gardens

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Community Orchards