Harvesting small, tree fruit (mulberries): science and tradition

Ever wonder how to harvest tree fruit that's out of reach? Or why ripe fruit tend to be easier to pick? Then read on!
Biological Scientist
Biological Scientist

Ever wonder how to harvest tree fruit that's out of reach? Or why ripe fruit tend to be easier to pick? Then read on!

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I got some free wood chips from a local composting facility. Much of my discussion about the virtues of wood chips related to their use as mulch. But I also hinted that I was planning to use them in other ways. This article is about one of those other uses.

I analyzed market saturation across various Upwork job categories that I'm considering as my freelance niche. Read on to learn about my thought process, the tools I used, and what I discovered.

The last couple weeks, I've been learning how to scrape latitude-longitude data from the web. In today's example, I scrape the geographic coordinates from an embedded map on the Global Ecovillage Network's online directory.

Many so-called "weeds" are useful or beneficial in some way. In this short article, I describe how I decide which plants to leave and which ones to pull out.