Orchards after the gold rush

In 1970, Bob Cantasino and some friends “were out driving around on dirt roads in the Sierra. We came up atop of this knoll and here, completely unlike the forest, was an orchard.” The abandoned orchard held more than 130 different fruit trees. “It was kind of ours for the taking,” Cantisano said. “There wasn’t anybody close by, so we just decided to go back in the fall each year to harvest it.”

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