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Posted on 04/15/2020 11:59:45 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
PORTLAND, Ore. — A team of retirees who scour the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct — the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the nonprofit Lost Apple Project.
The Vietnam veteran and former FBI agent who make up the nonprofit recently learned of their tally from last fall’s apple sleuthing from expert botanists at the Temperate Orchard Conservancy in Oregon, where all the apples are sent for study and identification. The apples positively identified as previously “lost” were among hundreds of fruits collected in October and November from 140-year-old orchards tucked into small canyons or hidden in forests that have since grown up around them in rural Idaho and Washington state.
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Each fall, Brandt and Benscoter spend countless hours and log hundreds of miles searching for ancient — and often dying — apple trees across the Pacific Northwest by truck, all-terrain vehicle and on foot. They collect hundreds of apples from long-abandoned orchards that they find using old maps, county fair records, newspaper clippings and nursery sales ledgers that can tell them which homesteader bought what apple tree and when the purchase happened.
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Have you tried Envy apples?
I disliked the Red Delicious so much that they made me gag; and I couldn’t understand how my grade school classmates could eat them. My childhood favorites were Jonathan, Macintosh and Winesap.
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Winesap are my favorite. Haven’t seen them for years.
Try Cosmic Crisp if you van find them, it will remind you of the Winesap.
Regards
KC
A guy named Albert Etter developed several apple varieties here in Humboldt County Ca
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