The Apple Whisperer

[rolanni]

It's worth your time to read this article, about John Bunker, apple detective

Today's to-do list includes laundry, bill paying and writing.  I'm gunning for 50,000 words and a eureka! May get the words, but eurekas are harder.

Hope everybody has a good and fulfilling day.

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

that was a really good article about apples, they really dont teach us the truth about Johnny Appleseed in school.

[adriannem.livejournal.com]

Very cool article! It makes me wish that I was in good apple growing territory. I could plant an orchard!

Mozart?

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

Did we ever find out what Mozart wanted when he kept meowing and marching up and down the hall?

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[nocal-kathyf.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed the article, read it aloud to my husband. Sonoma County, where we live, still has an Apple Blossom parade each year but most of the apple orchards are gone, replaced with vines. We have some gnarled old apple trees on our place and are planting more. Learned a lot from the article, thanks for sharing it!

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[gareth griffiths (from livejournal.com)]

Over here in the UK we have similar old trees - and the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) runs an identification service. Strange to not see two of the more popular ones over here on the list - Bramley (best cooking apple) and Cox (Cox's orange pippin). Some varieties seem to have gone global some not. We do get Granny Smith's , Braeburn and Golden Delicious and Gala. Sometimes but rarely Red delicious. Could give another long list of semi-forgotten UK varieties, but we never lost our hard cider producers.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

That is awesome! Now I want an apple tree. -_-

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[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

I confess to being more interested in cats than in apples but read the article anyway. That's terrific work the guy is doing to rescue the apple. And the other apple detectives also. I only like Gala apples which I see is the second most popular kind. I can't comment all the new ones since I've never tasted them. I like pears better than apples. And peaches best of all. There's a kind of apple that isn't sold around here which is patented.....I read about it....the farmers have to sign all kinds of paperwork to grow it. It was developed from the Gala is all I know about it. One good thing about all this Big Food, like Pepsico and Nestle, runs a lot of the food in the US to our detriment since they sell us a lot of junk. At least any kind of apple is better for kids than potato chips.

I guess that Mozart wasn't meowing about apples since cats don't eat them. Dogs do though. They love any kind of fruit. I'm wondering therefore if Mozart was commenting on something he was seeing but probably most of us couldn't see if we had been there.. Cat's can see into other dimensions I believe. Probably when whatever it was moved on he stopped marching back and forth right there. Just guessing.

[thewol.livejournal.com]

Mozart was likely singing the "Mighty Hunter" song. It has a number of verses.