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Blake's Big Apple. This Blake's outpost is known for its orchard and pure apple cider, a children's play area and other activities. Where: 71485 North Ave., Armada. For info: 586-784-9710 or ...
The 'Red Delicious' originated at an orchard in 1872 as "a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness". [4] [5] Stark Nurseries held a competition in 1892 [6] to find an apple to replace the 'Black Ben Davis' apple. The winner was a red and yellow striped apple sent by Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Peru, Iowa, who called it
He submitted samples of the same apple the following year and won again. This time there was a nametag, and the apples could be identified. The Stark brothers traveled to the Hiatt farm and bought the rights to the Red Delicious apple in 1894. [1] [2] In 1914, the Stark Golden Delicious apple was discovered and developed
Bush orchards can yield 2-3 times as much as a traditional orchard, [44] up to 35-50 tons per hectare. [45] The bush orchard style became especially popular in the 1970s after the H.P. Bulmer and Taunton Cider companies established Incentive Planting Schemes, which rewarded farmers for planting bush orchards of cider apple varieties. Today ...
Apple Butter. This recipe is the best-ever winter weekend project: Head over to your local farmers’ market and pick up a few pounds of apples and apple cider for the most flavorful apple butter ...
The John W. Keeney and Erena Alexander Rogers Farm, commonly known simply as the Keeney Farm, is a historic district located at 5300 Monroe Street in Franklin Township in north-central Lenawee County, Michigan. [2] It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 2001. [1]
Enterprise is a modern bred, late-ripening and attractive, red cultivar of domesticated apple with excellent fruit quality combined with disease resistance to scab, cedar apple rust, fire blight and some resistance to powdery mildew. The fruit is large and attractive and retains excellent fresh quality for up to six months at 1°C.
In late-2008, David Doud of Countryline Orchards in Roann, Indiana produced an MAIA-1 apple from a test tree called MDD5-44. [4] Referring to EverCrisp, Doud described MAIA-1 as the "apple with the 21st century crunch" and thought "it was better than any other apple he was growing" [ 4 ] MAIA-1 , soon to be trademarked as EverCrisp , was the ...