Every Tree Tells a Story Luncheon - Wednesday, October 2nd - 12:30 p.m.

In an orchard years ago, beneath the gnarled trunks of the old apple trees, we found an 1829 penny. Even Papa, born in 1900, did not know who planted that orchard. That orchard, still standing, must know so much of the passing years. What is a tree? Who are the parents of the apple or the pear, the peach or the cherry, the plum or the quince? What is the magic that turns simple blossoms into substantial fruit? And what does the tree mean to us? The straight even rows of the orchard; the singular stately tree alone in the big meadow, the friendly branches that sweep the backyard. Artists the world over have tried to capture the tree in rhyme and in reflection, or with brush and camera, and yet the tree demurely continues on, quietly guarding its secrets. Come let us share our world of orchard trees and how very meaningful they are to us. Learn a bit about farming October 2nd 2019!