Today in the orchard
Lauren picking apples not so long ago
Today was an indoor day. Outside it was 32F and raining. In the morning I talked to a writer from the Saturday Evening Post then met for a few hours with Todd Little Siebold. Later we were joined by CJ Walke and Lauren Cormier of the Maine Heritage Orchard. We discussed what to add to the collection as well as what to remove. Space is limited, and we always have important new discoveries that deserve to be saved. Following our “MHO” meeting, Todd and I joined in a zoom meeting of the Historic Fruit Tree Working Group. We’re developing protocol for adding cultivars to the DNA reference panel to which submissions for identification from around the USA can be compared. After that meeting I continued to work with Cammy on our website. We’re adding descriptions of the apples in our Finley Lane test orchard. Check it out.
