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I passed a fruit tree taking a walk this morning, and I realized I have seen quite a few fruit trees completely ripe. The fruit tree this morning had oranges on it once upon a time, but they were lying along the grass. I think in an era of farmer’s market fashionability the waste of fruit is particularly…in bad taste.
These fruits had been left to ruin and fall to the ground without use being made of their excellent qualities for nutrition, enjoyment, or any other use. A while back I journaled about a website where bloggers of internet browsers could look up wherever in the world they were and find some tree fruit nearby. Maps were provided.
What is surprising is that people allow their fruit to go wasted. It occasions a messy cleanup and a parade of ants. But what is the conundrum of watching this go to waste? Certainly property owners have a right to waste whatever fruit they wish. But is it the best sustainable practice to waste fruit?
What if someone walking by refers to consume natural fruit rather than fruit trucked into a store where thousands of watts surround and light it, and regenerative sprays and pesticidal materials support its grocery store longevity? Isn’t consuming fruit of the tree better and more eco-friendly?
I am tempted to demand some fresh fruit off some of these trees before the assorted green apples, lemons, and oranges go to waste. Looking onto the piles of trucked in fruit in the grocery store, I wonder why it is that even the rotting fruit on the ground will someday be prized above diamonds and rubies for rarity and amazing discovery.
Scientists around the world are struggling to invent super rice and collaba fruit and all manner of superfoods that can be grown in third world countries but feed and nourish the peoples of starving lands. The soil of some of the countries can barely support a plant let alone the trees that ring properties all over America.
If these tribes could run through the streets of our suburban cities, what would they think of the fruit falling ripe to the grown? Organizing our scarce resources before they become scarce is part of the wisdom of husbanding our abundance. Otherwise capturing this land from native Indians was a waste.
If greater care is not taken of our native food sources and natural botanical fruit of the earth, we can have no disappointed voice in a future that includes hunger without adequate sustanance of these resources now.
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