Miyun District: "silly Lao Zhang" changes mountain wilderness into orchard

In the house on the north hill of Xiaokailing Village, Kaolin Town, Miyun District, there lived an old couple in their twenties. Their daily life is weeding, cooking, rest, and the surrounding mountains of fruit trees, is the old couple spent nearly 20 years, planted with both hands, there are more than 100 mu.

"this' silly Lao Zhang 'has covered the barren mountains in the village." Twenty years ago, this was a common saying among the villagers of Xiaokailing Village. This "silly Lao Zhang" is now the owner of a hundred mu orchard, Zhang Shaohe. "at that time, everyone was willing to contract agricultural land, but I was optimistic about this mountain and wanted to make it green." Zhang Shaohe said that in 1996, he borrowed 6000 yuan and contracted 100 mu of barren hillsides that people did not like.

In the second year after the contract, "silly Lao Zhang" moved to the mountain with his wife and children. "there are sour dates on the mountain. Although they taste good, they are small. Can it be grafted into a large jujube tree with the taste of wild sour jujube? " He dared to think about it and do it. Soon, he and his wife took action, first went to the farmers' market to buy jujube seedlings, and when they came back, they grafted one by one. "first, dozens of trees were grafted to see the effect." Zhang Shaohe said that after grafting, he and his wife were busy taking care of these jujube trees every day, hoping to have a good harvest.

These dozens of jujube trees are very popular, the next year, the branches are full of fruit, bigger than sour jujube, but taste as good as sour jujube. Lao Zhang was so happy that he decided to graft all the more than 2000 wild jujube trees on the mountain. However, when Baoshan's debt had not been paid off, there was no money to buy saplings. In desperation, Lao Zhang borrowed 10,000 yuan from a good friend. With the support of his friends, Zhang Shaohe worked harder to plant fruit trees. at dawn every day, Zhang Shaohe and his wife began to work until dark.

Today, this 100-acre barren hillside has become full of fruit trees, jujube, pear, walnut, plum and plum trees. In this mountain, more than 10 kinds of fruit trees planted can bring "silly Lao Zhang" an income of more than 100000 yuan a year.