Orchard Partner Stories 2024
Partnership is at the heart of what we do. At the end of the day, we work to nurture relationships between people and nature. This… Read More
POP Learning Orchard: 2024 Season Summary
2024 marked the fifth growing season at the POP Learning Orchard, a milestone that reflects the orchard’s growing strength and capacity to nurture both plants… Read More
Plants of the POP Learning Orchard: Herbaceous Nitrogen Fixers
HELPFUL ALLIES IN THE ORCHARD NITROGEN FIXATION The importance of nitrogen in the soil cannot be stressed enough. It is essential for all life forms,… Read More
Eating trifoliate orange – Citrus trifoliata
Much of the literature on trifoliate oranges suggests that the raw fruits are inedible but make a delicious marmalade. It seems that not many folks… Read More
PLANT SPOTLIGHT: Peeling Back The Hardy Banana
Finding Musaceae: A Small Odyssey i. It’s March of 2019, and a friend brings me to work with them for a few hours at the Fairmount… Read More
The Heart of the Hedge: Exploring the Magic of Hawthorn
By Yam Vallis, MS Clinical Herbal Medicine Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) may just look like another scruffy tree on the side of the road or along… Read More
Plant Spotlight: HOPPIN’ OVER TO HOPS
THE STORY BEHIND AMERICAN HOPS OVERVIEW Did you know that hops, the flavoring agent found in beer, grows on a vine? And that it is… Read More
Cultivo de árboles de duraznos a partir de semillas
¿Alguna vez comiste una fruta deliciosa y te preguntaste si puedes plantar la semilla para hacer crecer un nuevo árbol? Aunque las frutas comunes generalmente… Read More
Plants of the POP Learning Orchard: Native Herb Row
MEDICINAL AND CULINARY NATIVE HERBS IN THE LEARNING ORCHARD AT THE WOODLANDS Scarlet Bee Balm, monarda didyma, in the new herb row at the Woodlands… Read More
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