U-Pick Orchard Catering To Families With Children

I have kids, and I love families, and I believe that getting to know the joy of the garden is essential for a healthy soul.

So, the idea is to create an interactive experience for families to come and engage with a mini orchard built with permaculture principles on place yet within the context of creating a maximally attractive atmosphere for families who don't share the same ethos and sensibilities to still find attractive.

I've been reading Grow A Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph. It's wonderful, and is solidifying some practices I've been experimenting with for awhile, due to my (here's a new term a friend shared that I love) chaos cramming of maximum plant buddies into my system.

But, the idea of an u-pick orchard full of hundreds of beautifully pruned 4-8' tall fruit trees of every variety of fruit I can manage to grow, surrounded by well-managed berry bushes and vines of every sort (in the understory or adjacent or climbing up arbors and trellises and so forth), with ground covers and herbaceous fruiting friends as well, that is also immaculately maintained and growing incredible ornamental specimens of all manner with benches and bridges and ponds and a waterfall and all that good stuff, is attractive to me as a vehicle for spreading the message.

This hypothetical operation would host classes and events, too, of course, like:

- Gardening Basics
- Advanced Gardening Topics
- Basic Horticultural Practices
- Advanced Horticultural Practices
- Water In The Landscape
- etc

Many of these classes would focus on families and kids, according to my values and also because I believe that's the most effective way to make a lasting difference.

Let me teach you a principle I discovered with a pal of mine:

I call it the social DDoS.

Basically, you flood your opponent with opportunities to work on projects where your values align so frequently that it diminishes or removes their ability to operate in areas you don't agree on. In this way, you turn your opponent into your ally by targeted, incessant cooperation with your coalition.

This idea is similar to that, but gentler. It's an attractively engineered passive invitation rather than an active tactical operation.