Every rabid gardener has a weakness. For me, these days, it’s fruit trees.

Heirloom apples, cold-hardy peaches, apricots, persimmons. With each passing year, they grow stronger, more abundant and tastier fruit. As they age, their gnarly, graceful forms become all the better for climbing (for little hands to reach the fruits hanging from their boughs.)

I’m convinced: Fruit trees can save the world.

Not only are they perennially beautiful—think of cherry and apple blossoms in springtime—but they cast shade, offer habitat and provide fruit for the families who grow them. …read more of Fruit Trees Can Heal The Earth here