DeKalb park gets orchard

A national nonprofit and DeKalb County’s parks department recently teamed up to plant three dozen fruit trees in a county park.

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation supplied the apple, peach, pear and pawpaw trees for DeKalb Memorial Park, a 17-acre park on Wilkinson Drive in Atlanta.

Volunteers from the nearby Parkview community have pledged to take care of the trees, which were planted after crews cleared an overgrown section of the park. The trees are expected to bear fruit in the next three years.