Carter's Mountain

Carter's mountain is a vineyard, an apple orchard, a pumpkin patch and a peach orchard. This mountain has been used to not only attract tourists but to provide the city of Charlottesville, Virginia with grapes, apples, peaches, and pumpkins. However, over the years the once flourishing orchard has been deprived of space due to the constant upbringing of construction. The apple trees are greatly decreasing in their numbers as well as the grapes, pumpkins and peaches. In an attempt to bring more tourists there have been numerous projects sent underway. There are now numerous roads throughout the entire park, to not only make the mountain more accessible to the public but to allow hay rides for the visitors. There has been the construction of a large stage and seating area in which there are concerts held. These constant industrializations and developments are not only destroying the produces land, it is turning Carter's Mountain into a development. It is no longer the escape into the orchards in which one can pick the fruit and enjoy them directly off the tree. There has been the added pesticides that have made the fruit inedible until washed. Overall, Carter's Mountain is slowly being taken over. Eventually I think the orchard will be completely destroyed and it will be nothing other than a development.