It was rediscovered growing in California in the 1980s during an era of heirloom apple shortages and was one of the first trees to be sold to consumers as an effort to preserve and spread antique ...

Researchers think the allotments were created in the 30s, but then later abandoned in the 80s, when the allotments fell out of fashion A discovery of 50-year apple blossom trees at an abandoned ...

All apples are not alike, as any apple-phile will tell you ... MORP's mission is to preserve and restore Colorado's heirloom orchards, and it sells trees to fund the nonprofit's work.

But those are all gone.” The researchers behind the Heritage Apple Orchard want to ensure other apples avoid a similar fate. All of the trees here were once grown in Georgia or were staples of ...

Volunteers at Frieze Hill Community Orchard in Somerset tend 270 heritage apple trees In Somerset, more than 156 varieties of apple are recorded as having a connection with the county. Yet dozens ...