We’ve been experimenting with cider lately, but nothing on this scale: a photo essay from the Guardian on an apple’s journey from tree to pub in England. Some of it is wrong (the caption writer isn’t an apple grower) and some of it Monty Pythonesque (they harvest with a stick?) but it’s all interesting and [...]
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We're stumped. The first cut is the deepest. But it was probably the 10th or 20th that turned this tree into an elongated stump. People. Please. Have some respect. These are trees. They’re living things, providing beauty and and nobility and oxygen and shade and a constant reminder of the splendour of the natural world [...] Fig Maestro Umberto Garbuio The largest fig tree in Canada is taking over a residential backyard in Burnaby, BC. Or it would be if it weren’t being expertly tended by its owner, Umberto Garbuio. Umberto gets hundreds of pounds of figs off his monster plant each year. He eats some, gives away some, makes jams and [...] |
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