California Backyard Orchard
Cultivating a backyard orchard provides many rewards. For starters, home food production is an interesting hobby that provides opportunities for exercise. Fruit trees, their form, fruit, bark, and foliage, also serve an aesthetic or decorative role in the home setting.
A successful home orchard requires an understanding that it is a living expression of genetics interacting with soils, weather, tree spacing, pests and many other factors. The website outlines considerations for starting and maintaining a successful orchard, including site requirements, tree selection, pollination, pruning, fertilization and much more. Specific growing recommendations and links are provided for 24 types of fruit and nut trees.