There are over 7,500 apple varieties around the world (and counting), each with its own unique history, spanning heirloom apples that have withstood the test of time and new types of apples coming ...

“Heirloom” carries the patina of history ... but hasn’t science rendered these older apple varieties obsolete? Are they really worth all the fuss? Fancying myself a devoted apple squire ...

and the deeper you fall under the spell of heirloom apple varieties, which number in the hundreds, the more you will hunger to try them. You'll want to start small if you don't own an orchard ...

The exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of ...

Today Seed Savers safeguards more than 20,000 heirloom varieties in the country’s largest nongovernmental seed bank, plus collections that include more than 300 historic apples, 500-plus ...

For colder regions, zones 3 through 6, varieties such as McIntosh, Haralson, or Honeycrisp are the best heirloom apple trees to grow because of their cold hardiness and higher chilling hour ...

Apples are the most accommodating and long lived of fruit trees, and they cope with our wet climate quite well. There are ...