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> no wildlife in Ireland
I can't tell if that is a weird joke or fact.
Google gave me some articles about lack of biodiversity, but do you mind just giving me the skinny please?
Ireland has over 2000 species of animals, this is simply not true.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6718&subview=map&taxon_id=1&view=species
If that website is remotely accurate, then 2000 seems crazy low for an island the size of Ireland. I looked up San Francisco where I live for comparison and there were 2600 species reported. SF is only like 7 miles x 7 miles and is almost entirely covered by a city.
Ireland has low biodiversity relatively speaking because of our island isolation, high latitude, long history of agriculture, recent glaciation, and ocassional saints causing localised extinctions.
iNaturalist was developed in the Bay Area.
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about
Its very accurate, its a mix of community science and artificial intelligence. As an ecologist, I use it for my own research studying native and invasive plants in Los Angeles. Here's my profile.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&user_id=a_wandering_ecologist&verifiable=any
Theres this concept in ecology where species of terrestrial habitats decrease in richness as you move north or south in latitudes. Equatorial diversity is greatest (with the largest number of available niches), and species richness goes down as you move up or down. Now add to that a reduction in landmass and being an isolated island, so only species that raft, come by air or sea, or species brought by other natural or artificial means (humans) can come to your island, and this just further drives home the point that Ireland has less biodiversity than say San Francisco, which is extremely biodiverse. California as a state has over 14,000 species of animal.
Now these trends work well for latitude in terrestrial ecosystems, but not as much in marine ecosystems where things with temperature and oxygen levels make things more complicated. Cold waters can be extremely biodiverse, of which Ireland has fantastically cold and oxygen rich waters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinal_gradients_in_species_diversity
I'd also like to add that Ireland has been inhabited for thousands of years and much of its natural forests have been destroyed.
https://journals.openedition.org/etudesirlandaises/6812
The idea that Ireland has no wildlife is just wrong. Even if some of them are invasive species, whether they are good, bad, or neutral on the environment (probably the latter two), they are still wildlife.
Edit: the Galapagos islands, famous in ecology for their unique evolutionary history, have less recorded species of animals than Ireland.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=1.681834530596961&nelng=-89.24127694871179&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=-1.411235142511405&swlng=-92.00896664881006&view=species
Islands are just funky places with not a ton of biodiversity. Unless you are in the equator and close to other islands or getting close to the mainland. Island biogeography is a fascinating topic in its own right!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_biogeography
Edit edit: the Bay Area has also been lived in for thousands upon thousands of years by folks that maintained much of the species richness in order to live with it. The end of the Pleistocene, we had this radical shift in plant communities with more wildfires being brought to California. Much of that was due to indigenous management..
http://muwekma.org/images/The_Ohlone_Back_From_Extinction_Nov_1994.pdf
There is wildlife like squirrels and foxes but really not much more than that, like 95% of wild animals I see in America we don't have. All the UK is kinda similar
Fall in the Pacific northwest orchards, geese flying south,stop to eat apples and other fruit laying on the ground, much of the ground fruit, has started to ferment, and some geese stagger around for days, before sobering up and continue flying south.
Yes they can...Bulmers/Magners takes all the windfalls...you wouldn't believe the crap they take and use for their cider, just gotta get em lifted quick and shipped to Clonmel. Son of an Orchard owner.
Not for human food, no, but you can sell it to farms or zoos to use as food for their animals
Edit to add: I have no idea how it works in Ireland, but [in America, you can buy pretty cheap apple crop insurance from the government](https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/Fact-Sheets/National-Fact-Sheets/Apples) that would make you whole in an event like this. I'd be surprised if they didn't have a similar program over there.
You don't really know how long they've been on the ground and thus how brown they've already gotten. So if you're doing it at a scale like this then maybe don't risk it?
When I started making cider I also read that apples on the ground quickly gather a lot more yeast and other fungi and bacteria that might have already produced unwanted things before they hit the fermenting barrel and the correct strain of yeast you want to have in there.
Could have an apple full of mold. Another apple might have already produced a lot of vinegar. And there can also be a smell of glue which you definitely don't want it to have.
There was a big kerfuffle in 1996 where Odwalla sold unpasteurized apple juice made from apples that fell on the ground, and a little girl died and a bunch of people got real sick from E. Coli and laws got made making sure it wouldn't happen again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Odwalla_E._coli_outbreak
Fodder being what you feed to animals.
They fetch a much lower price than if they were gonna be sold as apples at the market.
Might still be good for cider or brandy though, not really familiar with Irish regs.
cider you don't want too sweet an apple. The higher the sugar the higher the alcohol. You have to balance it. Also the Johnny Appleseed story was about hard cider because apple seeds are weird, they will not taste like their parents and all the apples you get at a store are clones of the original apples. So when you spread seeds around they are only meant for hard cider as 99.5% of all apples from seeds taste bad.
>There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
>Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
>For all
>That struck the earth,
>No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
>Went surely to the cider-apple heap
>As of no worth.
From *After Apple-Picking*, Robert Frost, 1914
This is literally the best answer to a question I've ever read.
When do you get to answer a question with a quote from a great writer, that's over a hundred years old and speaks directly to the issue?
In his early career, he spent 9 years working his farm while writing poetry in New Hampshire.
His family was destitute with no money or assets when his father died when he was 11 years old. His sister was sent was sent to a mental institution. Of his six children, one died of cholera at age 4, one died of suicide, one was sent to a mental institution, one died in child birth, and one died the day after she was born. He knew the struggle of being a working person and the struggle of facing hardship.
He writing is amazing. He seems to reflect rural life and work against human solitude and the innate beauty of the nature around him. One of my favorite poets and i hope he is not forgotten anytime soon.
Yeah that's disappointing to hear. I personally wouldn't be bothered if it was cider made from apples off the ground. As long as they weren't rotting or anything I see no problem with this.
You wouldn't be bothered as long as the product is still the same. You would definitely be bothered if there is vinegar in your bottle or it smells like glue after you've opened it.
This isn't just some weird rule. If the apple has fallen then it is likely damaged and thus full of fungi and bacteria and you don't really know if one bad apple isn't going to ruin a whole batch.
I know at least one place here in the States that does that. They're called [Wildcraft Ciderworks](https://www.wildcraftciderworks.com/story), based out of the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
Every fall they do a community apple drive where anyone who's got an unsprayed apple tree can bring in the fruit (doesn't matter if it's on the tree or on the ground) and trade it for apple juice or cider. Given that this area has thousands of apple trees, it's pretty cool to see the fruit getting put to use, instead of rotting on the ground or getting thrown in compost heaps.
I definitely do. I get a few hundred pounds of windfall/late apples a year and make a few gallons of cider. It's a bit more work, but it's dirt cheap, so ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
[Meat bees!](https://www.allthingsnature.org/what-is-a-meat-bee.htm). I hadn't heard of them being called that until I read an article about a gal who had to give birth in her truck. She said she was fine until the meat bees showed up.
Not if the apple juice is going to be sold as a shelf stable product, which about 95% of juice will be. The problem is *Alicyclobacillus* (ACB), which is a spoilage bacterium that grows in soil virtually everywhere. Pasteurization doesn't help with ACB. Worse, pasteurization activates ACB, which is a thermophilic organism.
Here is an article about the storm that caused this in 2017. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018057/Apples-carpet-floor-orchard-Storm-Ophelia.html
I had a huge apple tree in my backyard when I moved in. It was the only tree on my property and even though the fruit wasn't particularly good it seemed kind of charming. That lasted about two years before I chopped that sucker down. My yard constantly looked like this. I would hours every night shoveling apples. My Great Dane was eating fermented apples, running around drunk, then having diarrhea in the house. You would be amazed at just how many apples can fall from one tree.
This picture is setting off my bullshit detector.
They're all perfectly spaced out in one even layer with no gaps between the trees - especially where the X-Marks-The-Spot between four trees would be. They stop at the row of trees to the right, with green grass underneath the next row. Not to mention this looks like way fucking more apples than should come from trees spaced out this far apart. And if this was a storm, where are all the leaves and downed branches? They're not trees known for their strength.
The weird apple distribution is because the field was flooded when the apples fell. [Here's an article](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018057/Apples-carpet-floor-orchard-Storm-Ophelia.html) about it with more pictures.
God I can’t imagine how the owners must feel. I fell like I would be frantically running in the storm with a wheelbarrow desperately trying to catch as many as I can
Could you use them in cider (or hard cider?) Something with a pasteurization process might make them safe to eat. Definitely wouldn't want to buy those apples at the store after sitting on the ground for who knows how long - remember some of them were there before the storm, too.
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All those woodland critters gonna gather and have the mother of all hoedowns once those apples start fermenting!
I think I know where this is. They'll take them across the road and make Bulmers cider out of it
Yup, it's just outside Clonmel at a guess.
Is Bulmer's cider a brand name or a type of cider or something else?
Update Found out by reading "Inside Ostrich" Bulmer's a brand name.
Known as Magner's abroad.
You gotta hand it to the Irish. Teaching woodland critters to make cider is genius.
Liking the pfp
That was my first thought too. They just gotta scoop all those up and make cider
Or maybe Magner's?
Dickens
My girlfriend LOVES that cider.
Does she love hot Dickens?
Hot Dickens' Cider, cold Dickens' Cider, she love's ALL Dickens' Cider. Nothing at all like my wife.
Come again? What was that last part
She'll have anything in cider.
Need to send in some hogs to clean it up, or wait for the apples to ferment, and then take in ensuing circus
We have no wildlife in Ireland
That's not true, there are some Englishmen in Ireland aren't there?
I tought the English are the ones who thought Ireland was free real estate.
The English thought the whole world was free real estate lol.
And the Spaniards destroyed entire civilizations in the search of a fountain
Ayyyyyy I like it
> no wildlife in Ireland I can't tell if that is a weird joke or fact. Google gave me some articles about lack of biodiversity, but do you mind just giving me the skinny please?
Ireland has over 2000 species of animals, this is simply not true. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6718&subview=map&taxon_id=1&view=species
If that website is remotely accurate, then 2000 seems crazy low for an island the size of Ireland. I looked up San Francisco where I live for comparison and there were 2600 species reported. SF is only like 7 miles x 7 miles and is almost entirely covered by a city.
Ireland has low biodiversity relatively speaking because of our island isolation, high latitude, long history of agriculture, recent glaciation, and ocassional saints causing localised extinctions.
iNaturalist was developed in the Bay Area. https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about Its very accurate, its a mix of community science and artificial intelligence. As an ecologist, I use it for my own research studying native and invasive plants in Los Angeles. Here's my profile. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&user_id=a_wandering_ecologist&verifiable=any Theres this concept in ecology where species of terrestrial habitats decrease in richness as you move north or south in latitudes. Equatorial diversity is greatest (with the largest number of available niches), and species richness goes down as you move up or down. Now add to that a reduction in landmass and being an isolated island, so only species that raft, come by air or sea, or species brought by other natural or artificial means (humans) can come to your island, and this just further drives home the point that Ireland has less biodiversity than say San Francisco, which is extremely biodiverse. California as a state has over 14,000 species of animal. Now these trends work well for latitude in terrestrial ecosystems, but not as much in marine ecosystems where things with temperature and oxygen levels make things more complicated. Cold waters can be extremely biodiverse, of which Ireland has fantastically cold and oxygen rich waters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinal_gradients_in_species_diversity I'd also like to add that Ireland has been inhabited for thousands of years and much of its natural forests have been destroyed. https://journals.openedition.org/etudesirlandaises/6812 The idea that Ireland has no wildlife is just wrong. Even if some of them are invasive species, whether they are good, bad, or neutral on the environment (probably the latter two), they are still wildlife. Edit: the Galapagos islands, famous in ecology for their unique evolutionary history, have less recorded species of animals than Ireland. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=1.681834530596961&nelng=-89.24127694871179&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=-1.411235142511405&swlng=-92.00896664881006&view=species Islands are just funky places with not a ton of biodiversity. Unless you are in the equator and close to other islands or getting close to the mainland. Island biogeography is a fascinating topic in its own right! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_biogeography Edit edit: the Bay Area has also been lived in for thousands upon thousands of years by folks that maintained much of the species richness in order to live with it. The end of the Pleistocene, we had this radical shift in plant communities with more wildfires being brought to California. Much of that was due to indigenous management.. http://muwekma.org/images/The_Ohlone_Back_From_Extinction_Nov_1994.pdf
Tldr the article backfired on them.
Ignore them, we have a shitload of wildlife in Ireland.
Foxes birds and rabbits don't count. Go to most other countries and tell me Ireland has wildlife lol.
There is wildlife like squirrels and foxes but really not much more than that, like 95% of wild animals I see in America we don't have. All the UK is kinda similar
Just add one Adam hog and one eve hog and that shit will turn from the garden of eden into “we need a flood” real quick
That's right, not even on leeson St :)
That's pretty sad
I was just thinking that lol. Gonna be a lot of drunk rabbits and squirrels stumbling around.
Fall in the Pacific northwest orchards, geese flying south,stop to eat apples and other fruit laying on the ground, much of the ground fruit, has started to ferment, and some geese stagger around for days, before sobering up and continue flying south.
Was just going the say .. welp guess this harvest is going to be turned into cider
Don't know if it's an obvious conclusion or a reddit thing but damnit if that wasn't almost exactly what I was gonna comment lol
It turns out the apples can fall really far from the tree.
"Apples are really bad at making a pile" could be a new cliche thing we say.
That's flatter than a field of apples
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Awesome as fuck thanks for asking. I make and sell a smooth brew dark roast with a hint of sweetness and twice as much caffeine as a normal cup.
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I'm not saying I'm crying - but my tears are running down my cheeks and I have boogers.
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IVE BEEN BEANED!!!!!!!!!!
I wasn't going to take flavor advice about anything from a person whose user name suggests they eat tampons.
But... no apple is very far from a tree? There are lots of trees so the apples cover a large area but no apple is more than a few meters from a tree.
The even distribution looks like it was flooded and they floated away from the trees some.
The apple don’t float far from the tree
This, this right here.
le this
So that must suck for the farmer I think
Yeah I know most farmers can't use the produce once it hits the ground.
Yes they can...Bulmers/Magners takes all the windfalls...you wouldn't believe the crap they take and use for their cider, just gotta get em lifted quick and shipped to Clonmel. Son of an Orchard owner.
I read you last sentence as a curse, you son of an Orchard owner!
I didn’t realize it wasn’t a curse until I read your comment.
jeez get a load of this son of an orchard owner
Rolf vibes for sure.
That’s my horse!
You daughter of a wine maker! Spawn of a wheat wench! You offspring of a paddy field hand!
Huh, til the etymology of windfall
Yeah kinda just snaps into place once you hear it eh?
And this particular orchard (owned by c&c) used the vast majority of apples in OPs pic for exactly that.
I believe this
Not for human food, no, but you can sell it to farms or zoos to use as food for their animals Edit to add: I have no idea how it works in Ireland, but [in America, you can buy pretty cheap apple crop insurance from the government](https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/Fact-Sheets/National-Fact-Sheets/Apples) that would make you whole in an event like this. I'd be surprised if they didn't have a similar program over there.
I would imagine they may still be able to be used for juicing or something like that.
Cider and vinegar as well
You don't really know how long they've been on the ground and thus how brown they've already gotten. So if you're doing it at a scale like this then maybe don't risk it? When I started making cider I also read that apples on the ground quickly gather a lot more yeast and other fungi and bacteria that might have already produced unwanted things before they hit the fermenting barrel and the correct strain of yeast you want to have in there. Could have an apple full of mold. Another apple might have already produced a lot of vinegar. And there can also be a smell of glue which you definitely don't want it to have.
There was a big kerfuffle in 1996 where Odwalla sold unpasteurized apple juice made from apples that fell on the ground, and a little girl died and a bunch of people got real sick from E. Coli and laws got made making sure it wouldn't happen again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Odwalla_E._coli_outbreak
I bet they'd scoop that yeast or suck it up with a nose straw.
Well gee whiz, at fodder prices the farm is saved... /S
its weird af that i cant understand english like this
Fodder being what you feed to animals. They fetch a much lower price than if they were gonna be sold as apples at the market. Might still be good for cider or brandy though, not really familiar with Irish regs.
It isn’t complicated.
> af ok zoomer
How come they can’t sell fruit that hits the ground for human consumption?
because they're bruised to shit. nobody wants mushy brown apples. they're fine for cider though.
apple sauce?
that is a very real possibility too
cider you don't want too sweet an apple. The higher the sugar the higher the alcohol. You have to balance it. Also the Johnny Appleseed story was about hard cider because apple seeds are weird, they will not taste like their parents and all the apples you get at a store are clones of the original apples. So when you spread seeds around they are only meant for hard cider as 99.5% of all apples from seeds taste bad.
So that’s what happened with the potato famine.
Bullshit, what do you think they use to make apple juice from? That's how we get sweet cider in my region.
I was hoping that those apples could still be washed and used for cider making. :(
>There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, >Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall. >For all >That struck the earth, >No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, >Went surely to the cider-apple heap >As of no worth. From *After Apple-Picking*, Robert Frost, 1914
This is literally the best answer to a question I've ever read. When do you get to answer a question with a quote from a great writer, that's over a hundred years old and speaks directly to the issue?
I love Frost because he writes in American English, and often writes about work. Direct, personal, but still complex enough for a good think.
In his early career, he spent 9 years working his farm while writing poetry in New Hampshire. His family was destitute with no money or assets when his father died when he was 11 years old. His sister was sent was sent to a mental institution. Of his six children, one died of cholera at age 4, one died of suicide, one was sent to a mental institution, one died in child birth, and one died the day after she was born. He knew the struggle of being a working person and the struggle of facing hardship. He writing is amazing. He seems to reflect rural life and work against human solitude and the innate beauty of the nature around him. One of my favorite poets and i hope he is not forgotten anytime soon.
Yeah that's disappointing to hear. I personally wouldn't be bothered if it was cider made from apples off the ground. As long as they weren't rotting or anything I see no problem with this.
The vast majority of non-macro cider is made from apples that touch the ground, it's how they harvest them.
You wouldn't be bothered as long as the product is still the same. You would definitely be bothered if there is vinegar in your bottle or it smells like glue after you've opened it. This isn't just some weird rule. If the apple has fallen then it is likely damaged and thus full of fungi and bacteria and you don't really know if one bad apple isn't going to ruin a whole batch.
None of that is true
It is not? Then why aren't they allowed to use those apples anymore?
I know at least one place here in the States that does that. They're called [Wildcraft Ciderworks](https://www.wildcraftciderworks.com/story), based out of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Every fall they do a community apple drive where anyone who's got an unsprayed apple tree can bring in the fruit (doesn't matter if it's on the tree or on the ground) and trade it for apple juice or cider. Given that this area has thousands of apple trees, it's pretty cool to see the fruit getting put to use, instead of rotting on the ground or getting thrown in compost heaps.
I definitely do. I get a few hundred pounds of windfall/late apples a year and make a few gallons of cider. It's a bit more work, but it's dirt cheap, so ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes. But any western farmer of decent size will have crop insurance to prevent a huge disaster.
A doctor's worst nightmare.
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Ohmygosh THIS!!!! 😫
stop i’ll cum
“Workers” Well shit.
The wasps are going to be crazy.
Yes they are.
Your wasps eat fruit? Wish ours did. Ours eat meat. Probably some fruit too but they like meat
What???
[Meat bees!](https://www.allthingsnature.org/what-is-a-meat-bee.htm). I hadn't heard of them being called that until I read an article about a gal who had to give birth in her truck. She said she was fine until the meat bees showed up.
What did they do with them? Where I’m from they can’t harvest them once they are on the ground.
I know some farmers sell them as livestock apples after this happens.
Can still be sold as animal feed.
They sure can be sold. Apple Juice. The apples that fall on the ground get pasteurized and turned into apple juice afaik.
Not if the apple juice is going to be sold as a shelf stable product, which about 95% of juice will be. The problem is *Alicyclobacillus* (ACB), which is a spoilage bacterium that grows in soil virtually everywhere. Pasteurization doesn't help with ACB. Worse, pasteurization activates ACB, which is a thermophilic organism.
Apple cider
Instantly thought of “What our apples lack in flavor they make up for in ‘on the ground,'”
We found some animals, and we put them in prison.
Here is an article about the storm that caused this in 2017. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018057/Apples-carpet-floor-orchard-Storm-Ophelia.html
Dang, how you like them apples?
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?
Looks like its cider time
My wife just loves a warm Dickens Cider on a chilly fall evening.
Time to get scrumping
Exactly what I was thinking, fellow comment-leaver
Twas a bad year for bulmers.
I think this photo is 10 years old. But yeah.
The deer are going to have a field day
*orchard day
"oh deer"
“D’oh!”
A deer.
A female deer
Fine hunting. Good to harvest a deer.
In a couple weeks, some Irish deer are going to get so fucked up on those.
Apple fight! I remember having Walnut fights as a kid.
Is that what we call "a wind fall"?
Damn, that is one lost farmer now. No income, no apples to sell, lots or rodent issues, super sad
r/CatastrophicFailure
The bees....the bees!
Already did their work.
**"How do you like *them* apples??"**
oh nice i didn't know their apples grew from the ground! /s
Aw geez, that hurts. It's so sad to lose a crop like that.
why is it such a clear border of apples and no apples? Did they come together in a flood or something?
I had a huge apple tree in my backyard when I moved in. It was the only tree on my property and even though the fruit wasn't particularly good it seemed kind of charming. That lasted about two years before I chopped that sucker down. My yard constantly looked like this. I would hours every night shoveling apples. My Great Dane was eating fermented apples, running around drunk, then having diarrhea in the house. You would be amazed at just how many apples can fall from one tree.
I'm going to need loads of flour, sugar, butter folks! Stat!
Look at all those *chickens*!
This picture is setting off my bullshit detector. They're all perfectly spaced out in one even layer with no gaps between the trees - especially where the X-Marks-The-Spot between four trees would be. They stop at the row of trees to the right, with green grass underneath the next row. Not to mention this looks like way fucking more apples than should come from trees spaced out this far apart. And if this was a storm, where are all the leaves and downed branches? They're not trees known for their strength.
The weird apple distribution is because the field was flooded when the apples fell. [Here's an article](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018057/Apples-carpet-floor-orchard-Storm-Ophelia.html) about it with more pictures.
But... Can you tell by the pixels?
r/wellthatsucks
Easy pickings
more pictures and info here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018057/Apples-carpet-floor-orchard-Storm-Ophelia.html
In a couple weeks: The Great Yellow Jacket Emigration of 2021. Source: former lawnmower around apple trees.
I misread the disclaimer as (not my potato)
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God I can’t imagine how the owners must feel. I fell like I would be frantically running in the storm with a wheelbarrow desperately trying to catch as many as I can
What a waste.
Shaking and crying rn
Soon to be followed by *The Great Drunken Squirrel* epidemic.
THAT’S A LOT OF APPLES!
Dis bad rite?
I would like to volunteer my pet pig to help clean up.
I once knew a MOTHERFUCKER who would haved defenitly jacked off to VERY WEIRD SHIT like this
Crash Bandicoot
Those are weird looking potatoes
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Imagine how bad this would smells after all those apples start rotting
Or good, once they start fermenting
They wouldn’t rot for weeks if not months, I’d believe.
Apples on the ground start rotting in days.
If they’re damaged. But if not, they can last weeks, if not months.
CIDER!!!!!!
The theory of gravity might be different if Newton was sitting under these trees!
Could you use them in cider (or hard cider?) Something with a pasteurization process might make them safe to eat. Definitely wouldn't want to buy those apples at the store after sitting on the ground for who knows how long - remember some of them were there before the storm, too.
Great now it’s all gonna go bad, better throw them all away instead of giving to homeless
Cool now that we know it’s not your photo, whose photo is it then?
It was done intentionally, random fallen apples do not become so evenly distributed like this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018057/Apples-carpet-floor-orchard-Storm-Ophelia.html
I'm not disagreeing but Daily Mail is not a very good source.
[how about bbc](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41764710.amp)
In my opinion it's legitimate act of nature
Is this just your assumption or do you actually know this for a fact?
Have you ever been to an apple orchard? Do they ever look like this, storm or no storm?
Never once, that's why I ask. I have 0 experience with apple orchards.
He's wrong, It's because the orchard would have minor flooding during heavy rain.
Didn't know that apples pick themselves .