A study out of the University of Wyoming sought to identify heritage apple cultivars planted in the state's homesteads, orchards, and nurseries from as early as 1870. Using microsatellite markers, ...

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In a chilly wing of a Boulder greenhouse, apple trees have begun to sprout. The growing trees are the focus of the Boulder Apple Tree Project, which aims to identify, study and preserve historic apple ...

Mother Nature has us in a waiting game as to when she will let us get out in the garden and begin the new garden season. However, for people like Dave Benscoter and the folks involved in the Lost ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A team of retirees who scour the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Take a bite out of history while visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this fall. Orchards within the Port Oneida Historic District in the national park have heirloom ...

Malus domestica. See more apple varieties below! Credit: USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD Apples have been an ...

the apple tree stands alone near the top of a steep hill, wind whipping through its branches as a perfect sunset paints its leaves a vibrant gold. It has been there for more than a century, and there ...

On a hot October afternoon, Dave Benscoter leads me into a thicket of trees rising from a slope along the edge of Steptoe Butte in eastern Washington. We trudge until a mess of branches—some bent low, ...

Study provides insight into possible heritage apple cultivars that could be grown in Wyoming and also in other states with similar harsh growing conditions. A study out of the University of Wyoming ...