The Lord's Acre appears to have remained an orchard and kitchen garden to the castle's occupants for around 350 years, and many of the fruit trees there date from between 1300 and 1600.
On the English section, you can at times count the ducks on a pond or the number of fruit trees in an orchard in Kent.
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"We have identified unloved and derelict bits of the town, planted fruit and nut trees and trained the people living nearby how to look after them, " says Hopkins.
In Todmorden it has its own name -- the 'Incredible Edible' campaign -- and the local authorities are beginning to take notice, giving permission to plant 500 fruit trees around the local sports fields and promising to look for ways to expand the number of allotments available.
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The trust's volunteer orchard surveyors will be given training on what to look out for in the survey which will record the species, age, and condition of the orchards and their fruit trees.
Throughout the islands, you may be able to find the stinking toe served in juice or pick it from one of the wild-growing trees, though recent storms have destroyed some older trees, so the fruit is harder to find than it once was.
In the first half, when Richard reigns supreme, the trees are laden with ripe fruit.
As he works, the calls of hornbills echo through the forest and colonies of fruit bats flap among the banyans and teak trees.
These too rely on building 3-D models of trees and the fruit growing on them.
In London, a growing number of groups, including Abundance and Hackney Harvest, are promoting free, pick-it-yourself forays, with maps of fruit trees in the area to get you started.
The American apple industry plunged into utter disarray in 1989 after a 60 Minutes segment alleged cancer risks from Alar, a chemical used to synchronize the ripening of fruit on apple trees.
The idea was that when people came to settle years later, the trees would be producing mature fruit and newcomer homesteaders would not starve.
Agricultural experts have suggested that fruit trees replace grain on the terraced Himalayan hillsides, but it is far from obvious that fruit would yield poor farmers a better return.
It has moved from growing the trees to processing the fruit, and is now the largest bulk supplier of fresh juice to national brands such as Tropicana.
Fruit and nut trees are the upper level, while below are berry shrubs, edible perennials and annuals.
But some of the crops are destroyed and most of the peach trees are left with no fruit on them.
The whitewashed farmstead sits above terracing of fruit trees, and is surrounded by neat lawns bordered by a kaleidoscope of roses.
In industrialised nations, such as the US and in Europe, many farms employ the services of commercial hives to pollinate fruit trees and food crops, and ensure they harvest adequate yields.
Abundance groups don't steal fruit, they simply ask the people who own trees if they can pick it.
While hiding in the forest from the rebels, they survived off fruit they could pick from trees.
The wardens then teach them how to forage for fruit, climb trees and generally fend for themselves.
By July, 30 apple, pear, cherry and plum trees were planted with help from professional arborists at the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.
Ornamental tree varieties like Jacaranda were also planted on the terraces to provide shade, as well as palm trees and fruit trees like papaya.
Here, an abundance of free-flowing freshwater springs support hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees and date palms, which also shade and cool the valley's mudbrick villages as they rest concealed in the greenery.
It calls for local authorities, schools and community groups to plant fruit trees in schools and community settings so children, families and the wider community can learn how to grow, harvest, and enjoy their own local seasonal fruit.
The sunny island with high mountains and deep valleys also provides herbs and aromatic plants, fruit trees and vegetables, wheat and barley.
Bancroft's succulent garden and is part of the 8-acre family compound, is well-tended, with mature plants and fruit-bearing trees.
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