My neighbor insisted I remove my apple tree—then one morning, I woke up to my entire yard buried in apples.

I quietly installed a trail camera behind a hedge, aimed at the tree and the garden gate.

I hoped I would never need it.

Three weeks later, I woke to find hundreds of apples scattered across my lawn.

Nearly every piece of fruit had been stripped from the tree. Several smaller branches were broken, and the soil beneath them continue reading …