[Lurker]

Mo should do an Appleseed Shoot next.

That’d be a hoot.

L

[a little elbow grease]

Yes...... I think he lived here in my home town (Pittsburgh) back a little before 1800.

One heck of a fellow, they say.

[JimRed]

An itinerant preacher, planting where he wandered IIRC.

[mad_as_he$$]

JA was real. But his efforts were to promote the making of apple moonshine. He traveled and collect shine “taxes” for helping people get apple orchards going. “Whiskey” was the rural currency along with other farming products.

[a little elbow grease]

He knew .... and all should know that if you cut an apple horizontally at the center through the seeds ...... you will see a perfect star.

All is good .....

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Was Johnny Appleseed for real?

Yes, and he has a brother: DeQuan Spredmyseed who gots 35 kids wif 28 different women.

[DannyTN]

I think we should seed bomb forest areas with edible plants, so that if society ever decays or their is famine, there would be a ready source of food for harvesting.

[PIF]

Apples originated in China beginning possibly about two to ten million years ago.

[Kenton]

Interesting subject, I grew up with this story. John Chapman’s first orchards were located near my home town in the Brokenstraw Valley in NW Pennsylvania. The wild descendants of those orchards have produced wild apples in the woods along the valley.

[buffaloguy]

Families normally drank apple cidet. The fermentation killed bacteria.

[EveningStar]

Johnny Appleseed - 1948 Disney short (17:35)

[Vermont Lt]

He was kind of a hippie.

[blam]

[blam]

Viking Sagas : Apples Of Iduna

[Deplorable American1776]

John Chapman was real...he was born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1774.

[skepsel]

I’ve read that JA was also aiding settlement, something about moving a few years in advance of the front of the westward expanding frontier, planting apple seeds helped with a legal requirement that settlers had to build a structure and put in a crop as part of improving the land to qualify for homestead rights.