[Los Angeles, CA Permaculture] fruit tree questions

[Joan Stevens]

Got a bunch of questions as I plan and plant my new space: Planning on doing fruit trees espaliered or fan shaped along back (S facing) and side (W facing) walls - not a huge amount of space so want to be very efficient with plants.  How well do multi-graft trees do?  I am considering trying to find multi-graft plum and cherry to graft the a couple varieties to get the pollinizers present without having to add trees.  and how hard is it to learn to train fruit trees?  It will be my first time.  Also where the heck do I find these specific trees?  Minnie Royal with Royal Lee on dwarfing root stock?  2 or 3-in-1 dwarf plum fan trained or ready to train?   I am in Pasadena and nearby nursery pickings are mostly boring and not necessarily low chill.   and ANYONE have info about ice cream bean?  I have one that's been in a pot for years and am wondering if it's worth the space to move it over to the new place.  I don't even know what the fruit tastes like.  Thanks!Joan "There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."

- Bill Mollison
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