Posted on 10/09/2019 5:10:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
OXNARD, Calif. – The City of Oxnard has received grant funding to offer free fruit trees to residents. Qualified applicants will have the opportunity to have their choice of a lime, lemon, peach, orange, or avocado tree planted in their front yard.
All Oxnard residents are encouraged to apply, but grant requirements will prioritize applicants who reside in neighborhoods that are disproportionately affected by pollution, based upon CalEnviroScreen scores. According to these scores, priority neighborhoods include:
Tierra Vista
Mar Vista
Five Points Northeast
Rose Park
La Colonia
Cabrillo
Requests from communities outside of the priority areas will be added to a waitlist and considered if there is a low response from priority neighborhoods.
Trees will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Homeowners will be responsible for maintaining the trees per specifications outlined in the agreement form that is required with their application. One tree will be provided per eligible household.
Funding for this program was provided by the California Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund through the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Urban and Community Forestry Program.
To review program requirements and to submit an application, visit www.oxnard.org/fruit-tree/. For questions, please contact the Public Works Department at (805) 385-8280 or eric.humel@oxnard.org.
I’ll take a lime...for gimlets.
“Why are you against saving the planet?”
Because it sucks now.
San Francisco has all the fruits you could ever want.
My pear tree died this year.
We live in an older neighborhood with lots of fruit trees.....and have plenty of tree rats. When we moved in we had a plum tree and a nectarine tree taken out. All the fruit had rat bites. I decided we’d no longer feed the rats....except for poison. I feed them poison now. Lol
If they tried this in LA or Frisco the folks could just plant them in the piles of human poop in the streets.
Someone in the mayors orifice must have a brother or cousin in the fruit tree business. Nepotism is usually what fuels these plans.
So the breakfast cereal state has figured out how to grow fruits on trees now?
Next they will be giving away free tranny trees.
Don’t they have enough rat problems? This is dumb!
Lol! And I thought I made a good post.
I had 27 fruit trees in my backyard.....back in 1997..in SOCAL....before I moved.
If I was in the right situation, I would take an Orange Tree.
I like peaches, but they are so sugary, they would attract too many bees, bugs, birds, deer and raccoons. Unless I protected the ripened fruit from these ‘visitors’, I could never use it. I have never understood the appeal of avocados.
To me, they taste like soft wet paper, not much more.
One advantage of fruit trees over non fruit bearing ones, is most fruit trees remain rather small. Almost ornamental.
They never get as huge as maple, elm, oaks, eucalyptus or redwoods.
I don’t understand. Why do avocados attract the homeless?
I think California has enough fruits at the moment. Don’t need any more, esp. as homeless, drug-addled weirdos.
I don’t understand. Why do avocados attract the homeless?
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Free food.
Calories.
No cooking required.
Fruit trees are in need of water.
Electricity, not so much.
If given the opportunity - peach tree for me.
Freestone preferably.
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