Once we’ve got one or a few Dwarf Fruit Trees on our property we’ve also got an intention to take care of them: a need for feeding them some rich fertilizer each year in early spring and throughout the growing season depending on your choice of fertilizer.
Oh - chores, chores, chores.
Is this a negative - a reason not to have some of our own food home grown, a reason not to have plants and growing things around our place? Is life just too busy to add more duties and chores to the days, weeks, months, and years that are already full up with survival, entertainment, education, parenting, adventuring, etc in so many other forms?
Yes, in some ways it’s true that having another living thing to care for is “piling on” the responsibilities and thus the chores to keep up with in our busy lives especially in the city.
However there’s a secret to share with us all about this process of bringing ourselves closer to nature, no matter where we live.
It’s a secret particularly accessible to us via Dwarf Fruit Trees growing happily anywhere from a sunny corner of the kitchen or living room to the roof garden or terrace or a small apartment balcony.
To have growing fruit at home truly is an opportunity - one with a magical secret that arrives with it to more than compensate for the “piling on” of additional hard to manage chores from another living thing to shelter and preserve.
When we bring nature into a home or work environment, in this case in the form of a fruit bearing yum factory of a Dwarf Fruit Tree, there’s quite a bit of life improving, overwhelm reducing, magic that comes in with it.
Case in point - keeping the tree fertilized so it not only survives but thrives enough to bear some luscious bounty. Seems like another item for the research list and then the “to do” list. Yet isn’t it true that we already have an item that is percolating within our intent about having less of an impact on the earth? The vast majority of us, regardless of politics or economic views or even environmental views, are all trying to reduce the amount of personal waste we pump into general environment. We are all thinking at some point about composting our organic kitchen waste, aren’t we? Otherwise we are piling on more weight in the garbage truck. More weight means more fuel burnt, meaning more emissions, less efficiency, more pollution, etc etc.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Compost
These days it is simply “not done” to dump all your kitchen waste into the garbage truck and land fill bound trash can in your kitchen. Compost all that organic material ourselves rather than expend the fuel and land fill space to haul it off needlessly.
Suddenly the Dwarf Fruit Tree that has arrived in our life with all its promise of harvest and beauty and natural connection no longer looks like a burden of more to do list items to take care of it. Oh no, a funny thing has happened on the way to the compost pile, now our tree’s needs for rich fertilizer has brought a bit of inspirational magic into our days via alleviating the burden of what to do with our kitchen waste, rather than load down the garbage truck with it.
Let’s also pile on yard debris like all those wet leaves making a slick hazard in the driveway or front entrance as another point of “have to clean it up and take care of it before someone gets hurt” bearing down on our consciousness.
Dwarf Fruit Trees are in a fact a magnet and beacon for the transformation of these burdens into inspirations.
Now we have our own personal destination for our organic kitchen waste and our yard debris….. our Dwarf Fruit Trees each spring fertilized by our fully “cured” compost from our own compost pile
