RT @nick_routledge: @Englishomestead Today, the treasured ritual of gathering apples for storage. My life changed when an old timer taught me his 'root cellar' MO: keeping apples in large ziplock bags in a plastic tote under the eaves on the north side of a house, in all weathers, through April-June, without worry.
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Orchard ladder positioned next to an apple tree stripped of fruit. Next to it, a plastic tote containing apples in ziplock bags.
For breakfast today, the final apple of my 2023 harvest, crisply perfect still. It was a mid-winter epiphany (munching on an apple-from-afar) realizing the possibility of eating fresh, locally-grown fruit, every day, that prompted the formation of what became @agraiansharing
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Photograph of apple held in hand.