And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Interesting. Two schools of thought for fruiting tree farming, its one with cultivation of earth under trees, more American, like North East apple tree farms, either long term cane fruit beds, and or allowing for a natural formation of field grasses, setting up a co-beneficial biom in the soil feeding the fruit trees long term natural nutrients, only needing occasional low to ground mowing. Guess both work, never heard which is more beneficial for fruit production and tree health.
Greece has olive trees that are very old. It is fascinating to me. The stone wall to the left side is very typical of Greece but also of lots of other places. Thx.
Not very likely. In AD 70, Titus and four legions of Roman soldiers and auxiliary etc totally almost 80-100k men besieged Jerusalem in the Jewish Wars. The devastation was so complete that the mount of Olives and all the surrounding trees were cut down and used for siege engines and bulwarks.
Over 1 million Jews died, about 100k were sold into slavery. The entire Temple was torn down as Jesus predicted and the occupying garrison even sowed the fields with salt…
OLD olive trees!
ReplyDeleteI was gonna say, very old. North Africa, maybe?
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Two schools of thought for fruiting tree farming, its one with cultivation of earth under trees, more American, like North East apple tree farms, either long term cane fruit beds, and or allowing for a natural formation of field grasses, setting up a co-beneficial biom in the soil feeding the fruit trees long term natural nutrients, only needing occasional low to ground mowing. Guess both work, never heard which is more beneficial for fruit production and tree health.
ReplyDeleteGreece has olive trees that are very old. It is fascinating to me. The stone wall to the left side is very typical of Greece but also of lots of other places. Thx.
ReplyDeleteMakes me think of the Ents from "The Lord of The Rings".
ReplyDeleteI have read that some of the olive trees Jesus walked about and under in Jerusalem shortly before his arrest still exist.
ReplyDeleteNot very likely. In AD 70, Titus and four legions of Roman soldiers and auxiliary etc totally almost 80-100k men besieged Jerusalem in the Jewish Wars. The devastation was so complete that the mount of Olives and all the surrounding trees were cut down and used for siege engines and bulwarks.
DeleteOver 1 million Jews died, about 100k were sold into slavery. The entire Temple was torn down as Jesus predicted and the occupying garrison even sowed the fields with salt…
Those trees are older than the US, way older, like the time of Julius Caesar old.
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