More goes into the healthy apple than meets the eye!

Apples like Swiss Gourmet (known

also as Arlet) will be tree-ripened

to healthy perfection at

a community orchard near you. Apples like Swiss Gourmet (knownalso as Arlet) will be tree-ripenedto healthy perfection ata community orchard near you. Community Orcharding depends on local growers raising nutritious fruit for customers who recognize the full value of such pioneering work. Appreciable challenges need to be met to bring an organic fruit harvest to table. Our holistic orchard network focuses on sharing sustainable fruit growing techniques that emphasize orchard soil health which in turn makes for healthy trees and thus healthy apples and -- blessed be! -- healthy people. The vision of many biological orchards providing wholesome and flavorful apples and other fruits to families and neighbors is part of a much larger local foods movement. The time has come for small-scale answers that make sense for our planet and our lives.

