Although modern orchards have a tendency to focus on high output of one category of fruit, traditional orchards often invovle a mixture of different types of fruit and nut trees, berries, vegetables, and root crops, reaching far beyond just apples. As carryovers of home farming where multiple species were cultivated in a system of intercropping, these orchards cultivate trees such as cherries, plums, lemons, grapes, blueberries and walnuts at the edges of the core apple trees, or in the center with apple trees serving as the border species. The fruits of these non-apple crops often get mixed into apple juice and fermented into a unique cider, although the term cider may not be used locally to describe the resulting drink. In parts of Germany apples and pears are commonly mixed together and fermented. In parts of the U.S. and Canada cherries, blueberries or raspberries are sometimes mixed in with apple juice to produce some tasty drink.
Some of the many fruit, nuts and berries you might find in an orchard include:
Apples
Pears
Lemons
Plums
Oranges
Cherries
Cob Nuts
Filberts
Blackberries
Blueberries
Walnuts
Damsons
Sloes
Peaches
Pecans
Apricots
Nectarines
Quinces
Chesnuts
Figs
Grapes
Mulberries
Gooseberries
Currants