These bins were totally filled and I still have another load to grab from the community orchard. I had to pick the ones that were weighing down branches without the potential for growing well. They’re not ripe yet but are usable and I didn’t want to dump any I could save. I also have like 50kg of semi-ripe plums to pickle and turn into wine. The apple butter will go with some homemade bread.
Upkeep is definitely the barrier for us planting more. Ideally I’d love to turn every park into some combination of pollinator habitat, wildlife sanctuary, community gardens/food forests, and interpretive/demonstration spaces. It takes a full-time crew of 5 horticulturists to cover what we have though and volunteers are really hit-or-miss for complex plant work. Eventually I’m using that example in some Marxist green urbanist theory once I have a handle on how the economics and public relations side work.