What does a 120 year old apple taste like?

Well, surprisingly good!

When we first became stewards of this farm we had long strolling conversations with the original farmer’s 93 year old son. We would walk along the now wild apple trees and he would tell us what cultivars were planted where.

A few dozen of the original apple trees are still growing fruit––some of his father’s Early Tidemans, Empires, Red and Golden Delicious, McIntosh and Rome. We are in the process of testing the genetics of these now four-decade wild growing apples to further their story into new and climate-adapting generations of trees.