Orchard Review 2025: An Epic Fruiting Year
From the springtime of this year 2025, I was already drawing parallels with that fictional but very realistic epic harvest year in the Shire. In the spring there was a quality to the flowering trees I had never seen the like of, and can only describe as magical. The following fruit-set kept bearing along those epic lines, and most people with fruit trees noticed the bumper crop, and were scrambling to make provision for some worthwhile use of all that fruit.