ROCHESTER — With a vigorous shake of a tree limb, small wild apples rain down onto a plastic tarp at an old farmstead in Vermont. David Dolginow, co-founder of Shacksbury Cider, and a colleague then ...

Apples are from Central Asia. But that doesn’t guarantee they will survive there forever. Climate change and human activity are threatening the wild apple with “local and regional extinction” in its ...

If you’ve spent any time driving our state’s country (or even urban) roads, you’ve doubtless noticed all of the colorful fruit that adorns the wild apple trees of Maine. They are everywhere: on the ...

Last fall, I picked a wild apple from a tree growing in the Ile-Alatau Mountains of southern Kazakhstan. It was a Malus sieversii, wild ancestor of the cultivated apple. Biting into it, the flavor was ...

As an arborist who's married to a prize-winning cook, a cook who has won multiple prizes for her pies (seriously, if you meet my wife, you should try to get her to make you an apple pie), you would ...

Try growing honeycrisp, Chehalis, Granny Smith, and more apple tree varieties that thrive in Pacific Northwestern climates It’s hard to think of fruit trees in the Pacific Northwest without thinking ...

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