'I see so many people out there older than I am and they have nothing to do. They watch TV. I can't do that,' recently retired Gordon Skrede said. Skrede, who worked as a city engineer, has turned five acres at his Golden Gate Estates home into a garden full of fruits rare to Southwest Florida, including apples, blackberries and grapes.

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"I see so many people out there older than I am and they have nothing to do. They watch TV. I can't do that," recently retired Gordon Skrede said. Skrede, who worked as a city engineer, has turned five acres at his Golden Gate Estates home into a garden full of fruits rare to Southwest Florida, including apples, blackberries and grapes.

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