Apple ID’s in progress
TODAY IN THE ORCHARD
Time to sit down and focus on the bags and boxes of apples that people have been sending my way. Today was devoted to apples from northwest Connecticut where the landscape has been largely left undeveloped, the farms have been spared the bulldozer, and the old apple trees have been spared the chainsaw. This means that the area remains an important sanctuary of old, potentially endangered, cultivars. One of the apples looks promising in that respect. It was labeled “Ives 2” and is one I don’t think I’ve seen before.