I am a big believer in eating healthy foods.  Whenever possible we grow our own food and we do it without pesticides or chemical fertilizers.  One of the hardest parts of leaving our old home was leaving our orchard and brambles.  We loved harvesting our own pears, apples, peaches, cherries, elderberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and currants.   Since we couldn’t transplant all of our trees, we wasted no time in getting our new orchard started. 

Planting and maintaining an orchard is one of those things that takes time, effort, and patience. But when you’re able to eat fruit straight off your own tree, all that effort is definitely worth it!