Dad did that for as long as I can remember. Even though he can’t farm any longer they still have an apple orchard he started 20 years ago and people come pick apples. Two friends of my husband mentioned last Fall that they wished they had some good farm grown apples and I invited them to Mom and Dad’s to pick. I picked 6 bushels and they filled up a pickup truck. There were still thousands of apples left on the trees. I made apple butter and jelly until I ran out of room to store it so I gave it for Christmas presents. There is nothing better than organically farm grown apples and other fruit. I can’t stand the soft tasteless apples that are sold in grocery stores. Yuck!
We live in one of those type of areas. When my husband had his wreck a few years ago and I couldn’t make a garden, it was common for me to come home from work and find several bushels of corn, sacks of okra, beans, tomatoes and numerous other things that neighbors dropped off while I was at work. Nobody goes hungry in this neighborhood.
Sounds like a great place to live.
Melinda, everyone should be blessed with the kind of community you describe. And yes, when it comes to taste, home grown wins over store bought every time.