Carrie Lange
All Hail Cardboard Boxes
So we ran out of bags again, despite the fact that I cleared all the bags out from the foodbank when I dropped off the donation from last...
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Carrie Lange
Sep 24, 20222 min read
Way Too Many Apples
We returned to the Bel Marin Keys for a family with "way too many apples" and I entirely underestimated how many "way too many" was. The...
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Carrie Lange
Sep 4, 20222 min read
Fruits of Labor Day!
Do you... do you see what I did there? No? Okay. We got an entire team out today! And thank god, because the second house we went to,...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 28, 20223 min read
It's Plum Season Baby!
Just... holy plums. I'm not even kidding. There's something about this year. Maybe I just missed it last year, maybe I'm not remembering...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 26, 20222 min read
Episode 2: The Little Tree that Could-ish
So, continuing along the vein of my last post about that incredible pear tree that gave us seven bags of pears, we got a call about a...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 24, 20223 min read
The Little Tree that Could - and the Cart that Couldn't
If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles. — Grant Stoelwinder Yeah, uh, learned that one today. Today, I decided to give my...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 22, 20222 min read
300 Pounds of Plums!!
You know how sometimes in group projects there's just that one person that ends up doing the bulk of the work, even when you don't ask...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Plums, Plums, and more Plums.
So remember that three houses a day vow I made last post? I um... I broke it. So, if you look at the map below, the dark red ones...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 15, 20223 min read
Mistakes Were Made
A semi-cohesive report on Plums, Apples, Oranges and logistical learning curves.
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Carrie Lange
Jul 2, 20223 min read
82 Year Old Fig Trees and Radio Interviews
I'm going to be honest, when the woman who owned the house told me the two massive fig trees in her front yard were old, I did not think...
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Carrie Lange
Dec 19, 20212 min read
Pomegranates and Persimmons
As it turns out, fruits don't like winter. I don't blame them. I do as well, if I'm huddled under a blanket with hot tea and Netflix, but...
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Carrie Lange
Sep 8, 20213 min read
Plums and Car Tires
I have had a complete time of it lately. It's been a bit of a roller coaster, but a fun one. Mostly. I've been pretty swamped by various...
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Carrie Lange
Aug 7, 20214 min read
Oranges, Plums, and Pears oh my
(And more apples, but there are really too many mentions of apples on these posts already.) August 7, 2021 Today was the third...
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Carrie Lange
Aug 6, 20212 min read
Raining Apples
August 5, 2021 Welcome to the second day of picking! Today was two hundred fifty-eight pounds of a whole lot of apples; give or take...
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Carrie Lange
Aug 5, 20213 min read
Tea, Cookies, and Tree Branches
Today is August 6, 2021, and the third day of picking! One of my mom's friends reposted my first nextdoor neighbor post so we were able...
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Carrie Lange
Jul 30, 20211 min read
First Picking Day!
Thursday, July 29 I don't have a lot of experience blogging, in fact, this is the first time I've ever done something like this. We had...
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