https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ 2026-05-06T04:02:22+00:00 https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/favicon.ico text/html 2026-03-26T18:33:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/frui/fruit_trees?rev=1774550017&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming. Fruit trees & orchards [Fruit trees & orchards] ---------- ""Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences f…