Old varieties are repopulating orchards and filling CSA boxes, ... Dow Farm in Standish grows old apple varieties once grown there in the 19th century, ... “And over time, ...

The two botanists with the nonprofit Lost Apple Project scour county fair records, newspaper clippings and nursery sales ledgers to figure out which varieties existed in the area. The task is huge ...

Identifying apple varieties can be challenging especially when there aren’t live examples to compare them to. Benscoter started his effort after spending some time in the old orchards that have ...

Ten apple varieties that were thought to be extinct have been recovered thanks to a non-profit group of apple hunters. Founder of the Lost Apple Project, David Benscoter, told CNN that it all ...

Old time orchardists found that many unique and exotic varieties grew well in the valley. One of them is the Calville Blanc d'Iver. "This is the apple," said Roger, "that King Louis VIII was ...

Modern satellite imagery efficiently helped save time and energy ... where they are evaluated using DNA analysis and then compared to the university’s 3,500-count database of old apple varieties.

Some of these apple varieties have been “lost to time,” Sleeping Bear wrote on their Facebook page. You can pick up to one bushel by hand if you’re visiting the Port Oneida orchards, which ...