Let 2010 Be the Year of the Heirloom Apple
Posted in Agriculture, Coming Home to Eat, Family, General, Links, Local Food Alert, Sustainable Environments on Jan 9th, 2010
While the Chinese will be celebrating 2010 as the Year of the Tiger, we in America have historically had no tigers except those in zoos and circuses. But what we once have had many of—heirloom apples—are now in danger of becoming as rare as tigers are in Asia. Of some 15,000 to 16,000 apples varieties [...]