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Dakota College at Bottineau received a grant to plant fruit and nut trees this summer on the campus.
BOTTINEAU – A planned community orchard at Dakota College at Bottineau will provide sweet fruits and berries and nuts for the campus and the community for years to come, said Apryl Mawby, farm manager, and Cody Clemensen, a forest steward specialist with the North Dakota Forest Service.
“This is probably what I’m most proud of from my work here at the college,” said Mawby. “It’s a legacy for the community.”
The college received a grant of a little more than $19,000 to install the orchard, which is to be planted this summer. Ninety-seven trees and shrubs of different varieties of apple, apricot, pear, mulberry, hazelnut, cherry, honeyberry, plum, juneberry, highbrush cranberry, currant, aronia, and seabuckthorn will be planted.