apples!

I was giddy when I had it confirmed by a long time resident that the apple trees we inherited aren’t crab apples, they’re eating apples! Don’t get me wrong, crab apples are great, but there is already an abundance of them in the area. They won’t be hard to glean, although we’ll plant some ourselves as well. It is definitely rarer to find mature apple trees of the larger variety. They’re likely Parkland or Norland(!).

It will be a bigger challenge sourcing fruit in our new area; we’ll be relying more on our own orchard, and on wild fruit. Until our fruit trees and bushes are bigger we’ll have to accept some charity from our neighbors. It seems many have more fruit than they can pick, and some know of mature fruit trees on abandoned farm sites. A kind local is letting us pick her raspberries while she’s away next week. I’ve always had good luck obtaining huge amount of fruit, especially apples, just by asking around.

I’m looking forward to trying the new apples! Especially fermented…