My great-grandfather and his neighbor (and cousin) Thomas Hood planted their original orchards at the same time. Cree Hood greatly expanded his father's orchard and made it his chief source of income. In 1946 my uncle Bob, fresh out of the army after World War II, bought the Hood farm...
Still, there are a number of amazing heirloom orchards keeping their antique apple varieties alive, and there’s a good chance there’s one near where you live if you look hard enough. I asked Morgan Hyde, a former reference librarian, for a bit of help researching the origins of many of...
Bulletin: Number 209: Treatment for San Jose Scale in Orchards: I. Orchard Fumigation The first federal pest legislation in Canada was the San Jose Scale Act passed in 1898, this Act was replaced in 1910 by the Destructive Insect and Pest Act. In accordance with the regulations of the latte...
Firm apples are best for pies and crisps as they hold their shape during cooking, while softapples are best for apple sauces, apple butter, drinks, and recipes where the apples need to be cooked down. Apples also range from sweet to tart. It’s personal preference, but here is how we ...
The nursery determined it was a new variety and began grafting it onto rootstock for commercial production at Braeburn Orchards. The variety's parentage is unknown, but for many years pomologists thought it might have been created from Lady Hamilton and Granny Smith apples. In 2020, a study ...
But we at that point ceased the scion distribution program. So for decades we’d been collecting scionwood from the trees by request, and distributing that wood, so that other orchard enthusiasts could grow these really unique and special trees in their own orchards. ...
But I digress. Imagine that. Me. Going off on tangents. As I was saying, there were no orchards in the middle of Chicago. Since living in KY (half my life now, actually), and raising my kids here, it has never failed to make me a bit jealous when my kids would go on field...
term goal is to replant the orchards with many varieties of fruit, in the meantime we raise four varieties of pick your own apples, as well as peaches, pears, blueberries and raspberries. We are one of the only organic pick your own orchards in New England, it is a very difficult ...
Yesterday was the 6thof January, the final feast day of Christmas, the day of epiphany, Twelfth Night. Down in the counties of South-West and South-East England a very old and special ceremony takes place in the apple orchards; the Wassail was a way to celebrate the end of Christmas and...
He would travel upstream to where he expected settlement to reach in the right amount of time, find the choicest spots, and plant small apple orchards. He then would sell these plots to settlers, who paid a premium because they were legally required to plant a certain number of fruit trees...