Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019)

Posted by gscott on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:53AM
from the appvoices.org dept.

https://appvoices.org/2019/08/07/a-tale-of-orchards-past/

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Re:Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019) by torstenvl on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:06PM (#27542538)

Hugged to death. Archive version here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20201112021733/https://appvoices....

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Re:Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019) by mdturnerphys on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:22PM (#27544147)

There's an nice episode of a Wyoming PBS series that covers similar work in Wyoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyD74vNdcc.

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Re:Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019) by adjagu on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:00PM (#27544467)

Related story from AtlasObscura "Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties": https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-a...

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Re:Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019) by teleforce on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:19AM (#27547321)

Fun facts, apple fruits were originated in Kazakhstan. The progenitor of the domestic apple namely Malus sieversii species is now also threatened with extinction in Kazakhstan's forests [1][2].

[1]http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181120-the-birthplace-of-t...

[2]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/apples-of...

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