RT @nick_routledge: 'Professor Chris' and I have now spent a decade prowling the world's most diverse apple orchard, interpreting, tracking and sharing a dizzying array of its 'hidden' arboreal powers. In there, in all seasons, yesterday marked our traditional annual visit to examine 'late hangers.'
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Nick holding a bunch of red crab apples to his ear in the style of earrings, smiling.
@brightabyss 1/ It's that time of year we head out and about to explore specifically for long-hanging fruit very often associated with good storability - just now around old farmsteads in the Cascades foothills. Our choicest finds? Unnamed, seedling varieties with superb all round character.
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Chris Homanics with the 100% volunteer-driven Agrarian Sharing Network gathering fruit from one of 40-50 trees we sampled today as part of our traditional late-season adventuring in search of fruit with strong long-keeping-in-storage potential. Here, collecting from a tree established by original homesteaders over a century ago.