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

4 comments

• torstenvl 1041 days ago
  Hugged to death. Archive version here:

  http://web.archive.org/web/20201112021733/https://appvoices....
• mdturnerphys 1041 days ago
  There's an nice episode of a Wyoming PBS series that covers similar work in Wyoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyD74vNdcc.
• adjagu 1041 days ago
  Related story from AtlasObscura "Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties": https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-a...
• teleforce 1041 days ago
  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...