• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Please describe how random people could keep 420000 peach trees going.

    • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social
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      2 days ago

      I think there are a few choices in between “giant conglomerate shuts down and destroys 420000 fruit bearing trees” and “random man tries to farm 420000 peach trees unsuccessfully”.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        1 day ago

        Sure, then the question becomes why haven’t people been doing it since decades? We are being warehoused in WEF-style densified housing, where are you having a garden with a tree?

        Oh, **you **have one, but what about the 419999 other dudes?

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          you realise that if you tell people 420000 peach trees are available for harvesting, everything would be gone in less than week?

          The capitalist mind does not understand the concept because there is no profit in it, so i will not blame you if you fail to understand

        • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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          Well, there a lot of places that are populated only because humanity had access to monstrous amounts of energy and power. AKA fossil fuels.

          • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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            It’s like that map that showed where people moved after electricity and AC was widespread.

            Those areas may represent a kind of deficit that gets harder to overcome.

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              Pretty much. There will be significant changes in our species’ living arrangements in the coming decades.

    • Mpatch@lemmy.world
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      Agreed also, peach trees only produce viable fruit for like 8 years or something. Are one of the most pia crops to grow. And once new ones are planted, they will be producing crop in 2-4 years. This isn’t as tragic as these people are making it out to be. If the price to grow the peach and harvest the peach is 100$ per ton to break even. but because there is to many peaches on market and you can only sell for $80 a ton, how the fuck is the farmer going to sustain the farm? Pay for the ungodly amount of pesticide that peaches need, and stupid amounts of water for next year. You gota make the cut sometimes to protect next year’s crop.

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        were we lucky? ours were viable more like 15 and then the tree split in half. we had so many on that one damn tree we just gave them away.

        • Mpatch@lemmy.world
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          Yeah typically backyard trees can infact produce for much longer, I don’t know why. At one point I was interested in having a peach orchard… then I looked into it. Quickly changed my mind.

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              Huh, is peach good for smoking? Little did I know. New to the smoking thing. Also it could be to prevent the spread of diseases. Peaches have all of them and are stupidly susceptible to them.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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            yeah. ours probably would’ve kept producing had she not split in half. we brought our arborist neighbor (best kind of neighbor to have) over and he wept with us because our tree was his tree’s pollenation buddy. spouse if you will.