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Here's Wink Davis picking up apple tree trimmings

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Wink Davis and Max Eisele of Mesa Winds Farm needed help to clear out  apple and peach tree trimmings in their orchard.  So, the call was put out requesting volunteers to help them out with the offering of 10 pounds of gala apples in September.

Ken, Lisa, Elaine, Julia and yours truly pitched in.  I would call us a mini-mob. We had to pull out the tree tops from the rows so that Wink could pick up them up and then rake up the smaller trimmings.

We put in a good 3 hours work, and Max and Wink were extremely grateful.  Afterwards, we enjoyed beer, wine and chili made from local ingredients - excellent reward for the work we put in.  We each got a card to remind us to pick up some apples in September.
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Wink explaining what needs to be done
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A demonstration
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This is how the trimmings were picked up
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Ken is pulling his share
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Elaine is starting her pile
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Julia is too happy to help