TODAY IN THE ORCHARD

Identified as Transcendent crab tree, Cornwall CT, 2024

The CSA crew packed up the rest of the apples for the first week of the CSA and loaded the ones for pick up in Portland, Brunswick, Trenton and Belfast into our trucks. Tomorrow those shares will go to the drop-off sites while the rest will be set out in our barn for share-holders to pick up here. Meanwhile I did apple ID’s. The apple ID’s included the small fruit from two huge, old trees in NW Connecticut and a medium-large, rosy-red fruit from Idaho. The small fruit is probably Transcendent Crab, a classic old cultivar of uncertain origin. The Idaho fruit will remain a mystery for now.