picture by the talented grace swanson...The reason is lost to antiuquity, but the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Troy Wisconsin has an apple orchard. The orchard was entirely cared for and maintained by MMHI patients for decades. While the trees seem to adhere to standard sizes, they are all of entirely unknown varieties.
In 2004 it was ceeded to the Troy Community Gardens, a land stewardship program that gives free organic food to the poor. Their goal for the Mendota Apple Orchard is to maintain it using only organic methods. madness of course is entirely organic in it's occurrence, and not at all at odds with the goals of the new owners.
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