Orchard Quotes

Your legs are the breaks. So, your legs have to be that much stronger to pedal the whole way through. You don't get to coast at all. It's basically mountain biking with one speed. You hop over the stuff you can't ride. You grab the handle and you just hop over stuff. Put your feet in the horizontal position. It becomes kind of a pogo stick. - David Orchard

You get your money tied up in the orchard with the machinery and supplies, and then you lose it, ... It's tough, and there are lots of questions about how much insurance will cover. - Bob Williams

You can't blame the bear. They've probably been hitting those apple orchards for 100 years. Apples are high in sugar and make their way into fat stores. We have several bears who gain weight over the winter. - Carl Lackey

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing. - Ezra Cornell

Wind damages, such as loss of plastic greenhouse coverings, broken branches of orchards, and fallen nursery stocks were observed. - Mark Hudson

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough / In England - now! - Robert Browning

When you see the fan going, it's tilted downward so it'll pull some of the air down and distribute it through the orchard and hopefully increase the temp a couple degrees. Sometimes a couple degrees is all the difference in the world between saving and losing some of the crops. - Jim Kline

When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble. - Don Anderson

When this closes down, a lot of them go up to Little Orchard (shelter in San Jose), or they'll go back to their own camps they have hidden around. Everybody's going to miss this place and the people. With the way Julie runs this place with respect and honesty ... It's like they're family. - Lorenzo Johnson