That’s very considerate of you!
I’ve learned one thing the hard way with squirrels. Don’t even bother growing nuts. I have two lovely hazelnut trees. They’ve been producing for two years now. The first year I got tons of nuts. Since hazelnuts are not native to this area I think they had no idea what they were. Second-year they figured it out and I didn’t get a one. Probably cuz they are storing them. If it was some fruit they had to eat immediately I might have gotten some. I’m thinking about not even planting any of the new house. But they are such pretty trees.
I was considering a cherry tree and some winter hardy almost tress.
Then looked up deer and fruit trees, which led to rabbits and squirrels and fruit trees.
That’s when I realized that I would never get a crop from any of them as it’s just the two of us and there’s nobody to guard the trees 24/7 for as much of the summer as it would take for the crop to come in and be harvested.
I guess I’ll stick to buying them.
We’ve got a couple of small peach and pear trees—and we end up with nothing: the squirrels carry the fruit off when its about half grown.