My great grandfather amused his neighbors by planting an orchard in his 70th year. He got the last laugh, however, since he lived to be 94 and ate quite a few apples.
@machintelligence
6 жыл бұрын
I'll take your word for it. I turned 70 this year and I'll have to buy some fruit trees.
@sarcasmo57
6 жыл бұрын
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."- Greek proverb.
@johndifrancisco3642
5 жыл бұрын
@@sarcasmo57 Awesome proverb! Words to live by on SO many levels. Thanks for posting that.
@mueford
5 жыл бұрын
I'm fifty and when I planted scores of fruit trees eight years ago my mother in law said " Those take a long time to produce- you are stupid , Stupid , STUPID " ! Fast fwd . to now my three year old daughter's favorite thing is to eat fruit off our trees . I always take my mother in law some pears .
@jacobhayes5245
5 жыл бұрын
@@sarcasmo57 I was about to add this. Good stuff.
@richardgrimesjr8760
5 жыл бұрын
I was bitten by the "apple planting bug" 5 years ago at the age of 60. I now have 170 varieties of apples (mostly heirlooms) growing on my land. My Fletcher Sweet should produce some apples this year.
@Liz-sc3np
5 жыл бұрын
Richard Grimes Jr Living the dream!
@ratherbwithhorses
5 жыл бұрын
I bet the bees love you.
@alex0589
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@tj21bem
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! Congratulations!
@AdamsFamTCG
3 жыл бұрын
Good job Rick Grimes. I cant wait to get some land, and grow my own food. I rather work the land, donate and sell food than customer-service too others for hourly pay. Im envious. Keep it up.
@Scott_From_Maine
6 жыл бұрын
Maine has an apple historian named John Bunker who goes around looking for nearly forgotten varieties. Most towns had their own.
@erinpiccolo5186
5 жыл бұрын
Scott from Maine of course Maine does. That’s awesome. Go John!
@robbrown5702
4 жыл бұрын
I bought a couple of "Aunt Penelope Winslow" from Fedco . My family is descended from her and the story of how she brought the original tree from Marshfield Mass to our island in the 1700s always was an inspiration for my interest in apples.
@robbygreene7428
2 жыл бұрын
Time well spent
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@SuperHigear
5 жыл бұрын
Loved this video, thanks! In the late 1980s I located an old apple tree on a plot of land that during the late 1800s - early 1900s had been home to a Hotel next to a RR station in the rural hills of Erin, NY. during it's heyday. The tree was struggling to survive, having split in half at it's trunk and been abandoned for decades. Even so, the tree produced a healthy crop of about 3 bushels of medium sized slightly tart crisp red apples with a pure white meaty interior that year. Surprisingly to me, anyway, those apples were tart enough to use for cooking yet versatile enough to eat as a treat, and they stored well over the winter. After talking with several greenhouse owners & plant growers and finding no one who could, with certainty tell me the name of these apples I called Cornell University. After a lengthy and enjoyable discussion with a professor of horticulture he narrowed the possibilities down to a once popular local variety found on many family farms called the "Snowball" Apple. To his knowledge it was the last remaining Snowball apple tree. Sadly, attempts to clone that tree were unsuccessful. Even so I considered it quite a thrill to have been the last known person who was able to enjoy a true taste of a Snowball Apple and a taste of history.
@zarathean8758
2 жыл бұрын
you dont clone apples you graft them to another apple rootstock
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@VulpesHilarianus
5 жыл бұрын
Watching this reminded me of the story I heard that went along with a picture an elderly gentlemen showed me when I was a teenager. It was a picture of a farm, specifically a hillside looking up from behind a fence. On the side of that hill were four apple trees. Two were over a hundred years old when the picture was taken in the '60s. The third had been transplanted when it was a sapling, and had been used along with the other two to produce the fourth three. That fourth tree was the only known one of it's kind, and the farmer who owned it made a lot of money off of it. The apple trees are long gone now. Where it was is now a sandpit. The entire farm was turned into a golf course in the late '80s. A golf course that's suffering now because the wealthy population around here is too old to play, and the younger people can't afford it. I like to think that the farmer and his apple tree got indirect payback post-mortem.
@dominicguye8058
11 ай бұрын
what a story
@KCFreitag
6 жыл бұрын
Worth mentioning is that hard apple cider--apple jack--was proposed to become America's national drink. The cider was fortified by covering the barrel in a snow bank, and then the water in the cider would freeze first, at the outer part of the barrel, concentrating the alcohol toward the center. The liquor was "tapped" with a hot poker to reach the apple jack in the center.
@Regolith86
6 жыл бұрын
pen: that's a pretty rude way to respond to someone, especially considering the fact that you're dead wrong. The process is known as fractional freezing, or freeze distillation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_freezing#Alcoholic_beverages
@ralphdye451
6 жыл бұрын
Kurt, absolutely correct. History records that American independence might well have been discussed and planned over tankards of hard apple cider. Beer and wine were barely getting started and had to be imported, so the cost was appropriately high but apples were easy to grow and cider was easy to make and cheap to consume.
@robertqueberg4612
6 жыл бұрын
pen mightygun No my person of limited knowledge, it may be a wive’s tale in your mind, but not in my grandfather’s cider barrel. One winter about sixty years ago, my brother and I went rabbit hunting with Grandpa. He stated that we would have some “middlins” when we got to the house. Where upon he grabbed an old iron poker that happened to be next to the barrel, and broke through the ice. He then brought out a large glass pitcher, which he filled from a siphon hose. We retired to the house where he poured three big glasses of the sweet juice. By the time we had drunk this glass of cider, I thought that my face had fallen off. You state that theoretically it can’t happen, but after a bit of actual lab work in Grandpa’s kitchen, I have the experiences of two drunk boys to prove that it can and does happen. It may be the difference of specific gravities that separates the components, and allows the water to freeze.
@chrisduke3251
6 жыл бұрын
Very nice! I've made plenty of hard cider, and I've even heard the term for the middle of the barrel, but it's too warm here to get that. I'll just have to settle on the stuff that is 10X better than what can be store bought.
@robertqueberg4612
6 жыл бұрын
Chris Duke, Sir, it is time to buy a used chest freezer. Then you can have enough cold weather to make your own middlin’s. Drink one for me.
@hovanti
6 жыл бұрын
Great and interesting to know that there are "apple detectives" roaming about the wilderness, looking for forgotten apple trees. Who knows what forgotten variety might be brought back? It's as if those trees are holding onto history, just waiting to be re-discovered.
@robbrown5702
4 жыл бұрын
I know an older gentleman who does this and them grafts these onto a huge apple tree in his yard. He has over 90 varieties , all tagged and recorded on this tree. You should see all the different apples in the late summer and fall! I have taken a load of students to his house and listened to his lecture on them. I took him on a long walk out in the woods to get a graft off of an old abandoned tree myself.
@hovanti
4 жыл бұрын
@@robbrown5702 That would be quite interesting; I'd enjoy seeing that.
@kennethroberts6769
2 жыл бұрын
@@hovanti See the youtube channel Skillcult he does a lot of apple grafting and has a tree that has 150 varieties.
@hovanti
2 жыл бұрын
@@kennethroberts6769 Thank you, Kenneth.
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@warrenokuma7264
6 жыл бұрын
A flavor that deserves to be remembered!
@jerryross5423
5 жыл бұрын
What a great episode! I have over 30 varieties of heirloom apple trees growing at my home. All were lovingly planted by my dad years ago. He believed the same as you - that history deserves to be remembered.
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@FrankieGreen777
5 жыл бұрын
This has been my favorite video of yours to this date. We have been collecting endangered, and extinct plants and trees for the last nine months, and understanding the commercial side effects has been mind blowing. Thank you for doing such a great job illustrating this.
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@bullettube9863
6 жыл бұрын
What amazes me is that tastes have changed dramatically just in the past twenty years. Most of the heritage apples are more tart then sweet, while modern apples are way too sweet for my taste. Yet people want sweet apples, bananas, oranges and grapes, and they want them as big as possible. Think of the giant strawberries you find at the superstores, they are rarely fully ripe, showing white on the inside, nor as tasty as smaller berries, yet people think they are the best. Where I live there are several farmers who grow heritage apples and I look forward to the fall when harvest time comes around!
@maxpayne2574
5 жыл бұрын
Many people are sugar addicts I like tart flavor
@adelechicken6356
5 жыл бұрын
From the '40's on, my family raised a variety of strawberries called Robinson's, when there was enough water and plenty of sun, our larger berries fit 8 to a quart box and the 9th one sat on top. They were fully red through the middle, and so full of flavor that it just exploded in your mouth. In early July of '55, my Father picked about 60 quarts of perfect berries, sold them for $.60 a quart. He then took that money to pay the hospital bill for my Mom and new baby.
@McSlobo
5 жыл бұрын
In Finland we mainly have these smallish feisty acid bomb apples as domestic varieties. I don't know them by name but all of them are quite bitter so it doesn't matter what you buy. I guess there are some 10-15 major varieties but seems you can buy hundreds of others in your garden. In addition to being bitter the apples also rather juicy and very tasty - enjoyable. They cost two to four times more compared to imported sweet varieties but I solely eat domestic when available because the others taste just bland.
@tomcondon6169
5 жыл бұрын
Re: shipability. I have eaten a lot of golden delicious in my day. In my 20s, I happened to eat a golden delicious fresh off the tree. In groceries, golden delicious apples are yellow, nothing extraordinary. Fresh off the tree, they are golden, sometimes a reddish blush to them. They taste spectacular. I ate a lot of them in my early 20s.
@This_is_my_real_name
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite is a relatively new apple, the Honeycrisp. It's IMO the perfect blend of tart, sweet, crunch, and juicy. As an aside, I several decades ago discovered a simple technique for extending the shelf life of most apples by a truly staggering length of time. It's absurdly simple: just place fresh ripe, "crisp" apples into a ziplock freezer bag (freezer bag because it's thicker/less air-permeable), and seal it, after placing as many apples as possible into the bag. I had purchased some apples, bagged them up (so as to ensure that fruit flies would not be able to get to them), and the bag got lost behind some stacks of books and papers for quite a few months (can't recall how many). When I discovered it, my first thought was oh, great, a bunch of mushy old overripe apples, groan... -- but when I picked it up, I was shocked at how firm they felt. And when I crunched into one and took a big, juicy bite of the pleasantly still tart, tasty apple, I was blown away. Here in Michigan they grow a lot of apples, and there's a big industry involved in their cold storage. I never understood why the "hermetic storage" method wasn't used instead of costly refrigeration. Edited to add that I am not a botanist or a chemist (although I _have_ dabbled in photographic developer... development :) a few decades ago). So, this is admittedly sheer speculation: I suspect that the apples, at the peak of their ripeness, before they "go soft" emit some type of gas/hormone/pheromone/whatever, which has the effect of *_inhibiting_* further ripening of *_other_* apples. When all of the apples are sealed in an airtight bag -- at that ideal stage of ripeness (without bruises etc.), with as little "airspace" as possible (thus, the reason for putting as many as will fit into the bag), the small amount of air in the bag is rapidly loaded with this mysterious substance, halting the ripening of all of the apples, which enter a prolonged stasis condition. As I said, pure speculation, and if anyone has the definitive explanation as to what's actually happening I'd really like to find out! All I know is that I've had almost perfect success over the years, so long as I don't screw up by having too much empty space, or bruised/overripe/otherwise "imperfect" apples in the bag.
@deanstuart8012
6 жыл бұрын
First of all, I love your videos. However this has got to be one of your best yet. Where did you get the idea to produce a history of American apples? It has certainly brought back memories because at primary school in North East England in the 70's we learned all sorts of random stuff that wouldn't be fashionable today. So we learned about heroes such as Leonard Cheshire and Helen Keller, heroic events such as HMS Amethyst during the Yangtse Incident, banana farming in the Caribbean and some bloke called Johnny Appleseed in Ohio. Hard to believe as most of us hadn't been further south than York and London might have been on the far side of the moon. I think that our teachers were trying to inspire us, without being shackled by political correctness. I think that they wanted us to be more than factory fodder and to see that there was more to life than a County Durham former coal mining village. Please continue be inspirational.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
6 жыл бұрын
Dean Stuart thank you! I had seen an article on preserving heirloom apples some time ago and it was on my list. I will keep them coming.
@MarkSmith-js2pu
5 жыл бұрын
You Sir are a Genius. I always thought I was good at history, but you humble me. I learned about the history of apples for Pete’s sake and enjoyed every minute of it.
@mikasaackerman3730
2 жыл бұрын
ratio 😁🤣😂
@robertharker
6 жыл бұрын
Another one of your great non-war, not-military history to be remembered video. More please.
@maxpayne2574
5 жыл бұрын
Yes to much of history is focused on wars
@michaelwiebers9656
4 жыл бұрын
Robert Harker I was going to say the same thing. Not all of history is battles and wars. I enjoyed this snippet very much!
@PhilipLeitch
5 жыл бұрын
The same story holds true for Australia. Strangely the most prized apples were lost to cardboard tasting bland varieties. I've herd stories that the UK farmers were forced to destroy non-market agreed varieties.
@marykatherinegoode2773
2 жыл бұрын
I know this is late, Philip, but I can see we have a mutual tragedy. In fact, there's more to the story then he's telling. At one point, the US was creating many times the cultivars the UK had for sale-there were literally thousands of different varieties.. Keep in mind that the first successful planting of apple trees would have come in New England in the 1640s, more than a hundred years before Captain Cook. The good news: Roxbury Russet, Rhode Island Greening, and Hightop Sweet still exist. These were first cultivated between 1640-1655 by the Puritans. They got lucky in part because of the conservative attitude of local farmers at the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. (That, and all 3 can adapt to backyard gardening.) The bad news: a lot of the apples that Southerners would have eaten and enjoyed from the colonial period were lost, some due to the Civil War, where Northern generals burned the crops on plantations and farms, some due to no longer having the money to maintain them, and others just plain went extinct. Later, on top of that, Prohibition became the law of the land. What the man in this video says is an understatement. Federal agents often would come to the farm and burn the orchard down. It was illegal to grow cider apples at one point, and all those years of careful breeding for alcohol went straight down the tubes. Only two cultivars survived and just by chance. Right now, in a few areas of the east, if you go deep in the woods sometimes you can find old Apple trees growing what clearly are apples, even if the cultivar's name is long forgotten. I would remind you that less time has elapsed since Oz has had to chuck the prized apples you mention. It might not be too late. If I were you, I would go on a hunt to see if there are any survivors,. Many that were once thought gone forever have been found that way here.
@tanglediver
5 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! I forgot an apple in the fridge at work one time. When I found it again, the seeds had begun to sprout, so I planted it. It is now a seedling in my front yard, I can't wait to see it grow!!
@mikebetts2046
5 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind, because it is a seedling and not grafted onto a dwarfing root stock, the tree will, 1. Want to grow larger than most. 2. Will take longer to mature and produce fruit. 3. Will most likely produce inferior fruit. Apple breeders will grow hundreds or thousands trying to find the particular quality they are looking for.
@tanglediver
5 жыл бұрын
@@mikebetts2046 Oh, I'm ok with a shade tree!
@mikebetts2046
5 жыл бұрын
I wish you well with the tree. At least make sure there is some other apple variety around that can pollinate it. You might get lucky and have a good apple tree. Most any white-blossomed crab apple will pollinate almost any other apple. I have a Whitney Crab in the SE corner of my orchard as insurance that all the other apple trees will have at least one fully compatible pollinator. Some ornamental crabs can also do this but I have not researched this much.
@tanglediver
5 жыл бұрын
@@mikebetts2046 Actually, there is a Gravenstein apple tree sapling in the back yard. The old parent tree died though after many decades of fruit bearing.
@jbmbryant
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video! The Arkansas Black was the most common apple variety used by people coming west by covered wagon. It was a very hardy variety that kept for many months in very harsh conditions. The downside was that they tasted like wood and were just about as juicy and sweet and tender as a 2x4. They are surprisingly still available today.
@mikebetts2046
5 жыл бұрын
They are much better if the season is long enough for them to properly mature. I grow them in my orchard in Michigan. Some years, hard and bitter. Other years, really great.
@moonmunster
Жыл бұрын
I have an Arkansas Black tree. They are pretty good.
@v.e.7236
6 жыл бұрын
Yum! I love Honey Crisp & Pacific Rose. I live in an agricultural area known as the Salad Bowl (strawberries, raspberries, specialty greens/lettuces, asparagus, brusell sprouts, artichoke, etc.), where they have grown apples, mostly for Martinelli's Sparkling Cider, for a long time. I see murals of the different varieties that WERE available and I feel like I've missed out. Another nifty little snippet of Americana. Thank you.
@shawngilliland243
5 жыл бұрын
Johnny Appleseed - I love that guy! Thanks, History Guy.
@copper-tc6un
4 жыл бұрын
The Golden Delicious Apple was discovered on my great great grandparents farm in Clay county West Virginia. Their name was Mullins. The rights to the tree was pur hased by a seed company, who erected a cage around the tree to protect their investment and prevent others from getting cuttings from it.
@BellTollsForThee
5 жыл бұрын
Please please please make more videos on America's forgotten agricultural past! Thank you for bring to my attention the diversity and wonders of apples
@b_uppy
5 жыл бұрын
My dad would search high and low for certain varieties. What is a shame is how difficult it is to find "dessert" apples nowadays, we would fight over them...
@harveycovey2215
5 жыл бұрын
My favorite episode thus far! I'm a small land-owner in Minnesota and current have 6 varieties of apple and 2 varieties of pear on my tiny 20 acres. I LOVE this channel! Keep up the excellent work. It is greatly appreciated. Happy Holidays to your family and friends.
@RwingDsquad
4 жыл бұрын
You’re so exited when talking about history. I love it.
@unknowntraveller8633
6 жыл бұрын
Same thing happened here in Australia, our heritage Apples are very quickly dissapearing. If you can find an old Apple the taste is so different to supermarket varieties
@andrewwedman3953
2 жыл бұрын
The big difference is also in the way the apples are grown! I planted a golden delicious tree and the flavour of naturally grown, minimally irigated, non fertilized apples left on the tree until late in the season is incredible compared with commercial products. Have also the same experience with other varieties. I live in a region of Germany where there are frequently fruit trees planted beside the road. They are freely available and I have discoverred some interesting varieties. Also towns plant fruit trees in some areas and allow harvest by the locals. Try and find an abandoned orchard and try apples in the fall.
@johnransom1146
5 жыл бұрын
Love the Ontario apple baskets in your photo. I'm from Ontario and used to work at an orchard as a kid. We had Tolman sweets, pippins, russets and many others that people wouldn't recognize today. I've gotten hold of some of these and planted them on my acre of permaculture orchard. Canada never had prohibition so alot of the cider varieties are still around.
@mrdanforth3744
5 жыл бұрын
I live in Ontario apple country and was told by old timers that a lot of orchards were wiped out by the winter of 1934. Spring came and the sap started running then came a killing frost that froze and split the apple trees. Another problem was most of the apples were packed in barrels and shipped to England. That trade was dying out. Today they wash and pack the apples individually in blue paper in big boxes. They are sold around the world.
@NotSoCrazyNinja
5 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to go all folklore Johnny Appleseed and start randomly planting apple seeds all over the place and see what happens.
@chuckkottke
3 жыл бұрын
Just do it! Most of the seeds I've planted bore crab apples, but one turned out to be an excellent sweet eating apple.
@moonmunster
5 жыл бұрын
I have over 20 varieties in my field. I wish I had room for more. Some are fantastic eating, some are for cider. A good book - Old Southern Apples by Lee Calhoun. It is on Amazon.
@b_uppy
5 жыл бұрын
The pruned limbs/trees of undesirable apple varieties can be used to smoke meats, also.
@tolfan4438
4 жыл бұрын
Smoked bacon or any smoked meat for that matter when do you use Applewood smoked really makes a difference really nice flavor
@AmWestColl
5 жыл бұрын
I've always liked apples, but after your treatise on the subject....I LOVE apples. I sure would love to try the varieties that have gone extinct ....a very good video !
@edschermer
6 жыл бұрын
When I was a youth, my family lived for a few years near the apple growing region of central Washington State. We could get the “oversized” apples from the packing plants....some were as big as melons!
@wandabanks6756
3 жыл бұрын
WOW
@phildicks4721
5 жыл бұрын
In a couple of weeks we'll be celebrating the Grimes Golden Apple in Wellsburg WV with a festival.
@maple-leafs13
6 жыл бұрын
I appreciate all your underappreciated historic videos, which I have been watching quite a lot prior to my daily sleep. They're very refreshing to the redundant ww2 history from other channels. This video evoked me to the great works of Paul cezane and Rene margritte. With that being said, would you make some videos illustrating the history of artist around the world and their influences? Thank you from Canada
@57WillysCJ
5 жыл бұрын
The other important product made from apples was cider vinegar. Where I grew up the original pioneer of the property is listed in an 1881 newspaper as having an orchard of 5000 trees. It went for .10 per gallon and he had 100 barrels to sell. Sadly 25 years ago they bulldozed the last of the trees.
@ttystikkrocks1042
5 жыл бұрын
There's nothing better or more quintessentially American than a homemade apple pie baked with apples from the family backyard. I appreciated the treat as a child and cherish the memories to this very day. The trees in the yard are still producing, if not quite as well as they did half a century ago. Thanks again, grandma!
@banjoman101145
5 жыл бұрын
History Guy, I wish to suggest a subject that you may want to consider. NPR did a story about blueberry cultivation...this was aired several years ago. Basically, a woman in southern New Jersey was searching for a cash crop for land that was poor for raising normal crops. This was during the Great Depression so she sought suggestions from one of the Federal agencies that were created to assist farmers. Anyhow, blueberries naturally grew in this acidic soil so seemed like a good choice to look into. She and her neighbors gathered wild plants, those with high production evolved into today’s large market not only in southern New Jersey but now around the world. I was fascinated to learn the history of this important crop.
@scobbydoo773
4 жыл бұрын
You are probably the only person in the world that can make even apples interesting.
@paulc7590
5 жыл бұрын
Dixon Orchard used to be here in New Mexico. A forest fire allowed a mudslide to ruin their orchard. They went to Wisconsin. I encourage the people up north to check them out. They had several varieties, but my favorite was their Champagne. Absolutely wonderful.
@joelmerrill
5 жыл бұрын
My grandfather had a small farm in southern Wisconsin. Like everyone during the great depression, he had a hard time making ends meet. So he had many kinds of crops and animals. He planted an apple orchard next to the house. I wish I could remember what kind they were. He had a wild volunteer tree start growing in one corner of his orchard. He let it grow but the apples weren't very good. So he grafted a branch from one of the other trees onto it. That was a very good apple and he won awards at the county fair. I remember him explaining to me how to graft what I was a kid. Sadly all those trees are long gone.
@kennyhagan5781
3 жыл бұрын
The enthusiasm in your videos is contagious. That's something special.
@stingraybob8933
5 жыл бұрын
Surprisingly, Utah has many unique varieties of apples still growing from the original settlers. When I was out there this summer I tried a variety called "translucent" that was very tasty, and had been growing in that one valley for nearly 200 years.
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@kennyhagan5781
3 жыл бұрын
My maternal grandfather was part owner of a fruit market in East Texas in the 60 s and 70s He would have loved this video. Thank you for bringing back some old memories.
@jasonbeary8427
3 жыл бұрын
I love your histories that aren't about generals, war, politicans and conquest. There is a lot of history in how people of the time lived their lives, the things they valued, who they admired and how the made their way.
@michaeldavidson9939
5 жыл бұрын
Mammoth Blacktwig is still here and going strong in my orchard.
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up. Maybe send some seeds?
@ForceSmart
5 жыл бұрын
When I was about 5 or 6, my father planted an orchard of 40-50 trees, including several apple varieties. We moved away from that place when I was in high school, but some of my best memories of my childhood home are going out to the orchard and eating the fruit right off the tree. =)
@lawrencetaylor4101
5 жыл бұрын
What a great subject. I have been pushing for a return to our agricultural past and have a wild idea to have local farms for our world since climate change is going to make our lives really difficult. And I wanted to do a similar thing as John Chapman, but of course I am doing a romanticized version. I want people in appropriate places to plant hemp and linseed and try to get off of plastic. We are going into the Autumn times, but with the melting of the Arctic ice sheet, we don't know what will happen. And so go out and throw hemp seeds and we will see what will happen. Why hemp? Ask the History Guy. But it helps detoxify the soil, it can restore the fungal hyphae, it can trap seven times more CO2 than trees, and it can make so many things it can replace plastic. When my parents grew up, there was no plastic. And farmers were forced to grow 1/4 hemp, 1/4 linseed and the rest food crops. This is part of the Windyday Concept. Think of our life on this planet.
@sarahmeacheam7517
6 жыл бұрын
Hello from Washington! I love making Apple pie and Apple crisp
@quillmaurer6563
5 жыл бұрын
Living in Colorado (Denver area), I find a lot of apple trees growing in various places - people's yards, road medians, parking lots, sometimes the middle of a field that seems to be entirely natural. My guess is that some of these are intended as decorative cultivars but still produce some fruit, some are grown from seeds spread naturally, and some are past or present commercial cultivars that were planted as part of a long-forgotten orchard. There is a huge variety, especially as many I suspect are grown from seeds and thus aren't even any known cultivar but just something completely unique. Many are pretty small and usually not symmetric, but still very tasty. I'm not an expert on different types, but I've learned of the trees around town which produce what sort of apples, which trees make good apples for eating, which are good for baking, and so on. It amazes me that most people, including those with these trees in their yards, don't like to eat them, some seem as though the idea of eating them never even crossed their mind. I write this in September, which should be harvest season, but this year there aren't many due to a late May snow storm. Last year was very bountiful though.
@stephenhoughton632
6 жыл бұрын
You mention that part of the decline in local production is because of urbanization. However, there are ways for people to grow apples in small area. What about a video on the history of espalier fruit trees.
@LonoTheOno
5 жыл бұрын
I do believe that this might be my favorite episode of this program. I have come across "feral" apple trees in Northern Virginia and in Oregon, and been pleasantly surprised at the characters of the fruit. Often ugly as sin due to being untended, if you could find wholesome fruit and didn't mind a little scaring, you could have a real treat. I found a very interesting apple that came from 2 trees at a winery I was at during crush, that the vintner told me had been planted by his wife many years before, and he had no idea what they were. The fruit were smallish, 2-1/2" diameter, nearly spherical purple-black skinned, and yellowish inside, and little or no papering in the dimples, that was superbly cider-like in sharp sweetness, with pineapple and cherry overtones, solid but juicy. I went home with nearly as many pounds of those apples as I did gallons of Pinot Noir and zinfandel, and counted it as a real bonus. They kept well, and were equally as good in a pie as eaten out-of-hand. The winery was later donated to OSU, and I don't know what ever became of those incredible apples.
@Rissy617
5 жыл бұрын
My dad is an apple orchardist, he knows so much about apples! I grew up on an apple farm for a few years (in the town Johnny Appleseed was from!). I had my wedding in the orchard when the blossoms were in full bloom... I've got to watch this video with him!
@cephasmartin8593
5 жыл бұрын
I love apples, but today's Delicious Apples are bland and almost tasteless. I remember the Delicious Apples from when I was a kid. Those were sweet and delicious, worthy of the name Delicious. My favorite apple today is the Braburn, a great apple for eating and forbaking into pies and cobblers. In fact, apple pie is my favorite fruit pie. Thank you for another interesting and informative video. I always learn something from your videos. This one is well worth remembering ... and eating.
@yvobalcer
5 жыл бұрын
Try to find Pink Lady, they are sweet, I always smell an apple before I buy, there is a perfume if sweet.
@diabolikmitchell2960
5 жыл бұрын
Most Delicious apples in the grocery store have been in cold storage anywhere from 9-14 months before the store gets them. And John Chapman turns over in his grave.
@maxpayne2574
5 жыл бұрын
Red Delicious has been bred to have such a thick skin and tough inside it has no juice and sweetness
@dukecraig2402
5 жыл бұрын
Try a Rome Red, it's like eating a ball of sugar.
@tolfan4438
5 жыл бұрын
, the apples are clones that are exactly the same it's your taste buds to change when you get older
@laurarogers7560
5 жыл бұрын
I love honeycrisp but they are so expensive. And sometimes i go for the Fuji apple.
@dr.velious5411
5 жыл бұрын
The local Aldis up here was carrying some good apple juice made from both kinds for a while, then they just stopped selling it one day, pretty disappointing.
@bliastreb6466
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in Maine and have the blessing of a few rare types. Two identified by John Bunker, already mentioned by Scott in a previous post. Noteable are the Schiawassee (sp?) or Strawberry apple. When you cut it open, the flesh smells like strawberries! It's a potent cider apple; by itself very thick juice. I had some Wolf River; they're gone now. I also have a type John Id'd as Famuse , maybe an old French variety. I also have a Baldwin, plus two types: A yellow , and an early red that we only have guesses about ID!
@kingdavidapple
7 ай бұрын
Fameuse, AKA Snow apple, yes: French Canadian.
@plainsimple442
3 ай бұрын
@@kingdavidapple I am from Maine and think that the Fameuse are the McIntosh family. I still favor the Cortland, and recently planted a Roxbury Russet.
@kingdavidapple
3 ай бұрын
@@plainsimple442 The consensus is McIntosh may be a Fameuse seedling. Maybe I need to try Roxbury again & keep it until February. Ever had Lamb Abbey? Wow!
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@RealLifeWorthLiving
5 жыл бұрын
It's that mass comercialization that has destroyed my love for apples over the years. When my brothers and I were children we loved apples and my parents bought them, literally, by the bushels. Almost everyone had a tree of some sort of apple variety and every farmer had an orchard, or at least, a stand of apple trees. We lived in Hagerstown, MD and there were apples all around us, from Ringgold to Winchester, to Cave Town to Green Castle. We had relatives with orchards who gave us as many as my parents bought. We had pies, dumplings, cakes, apple sauce, apple everything. We would grab an arm load of apples and go outside to play. We had crab apple trees, too, from which my mother made pickled crab apples and crab apple jelly. From that perfect atmosphere of apple-heaven, it seems, I haven't found a real apple--that is, a fresh, juicy, ripened to perfection apple---anywhere in my places of service and abode.Just those, hard, far from ripe, cold storage, grocery store apples. All America really needs is a really good apple rather than a five cent cigar.
@Dominic.Minischetti
6 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! I never knew that about the golden delicious. I have found many apple trees while roaming the woods. I always figured there was a homestead there at one time when ever I found some trees.
@flintlock3939
5 жыл бұрын
A lot of feral apple trees come to be from being dropped through deer feces. Apples still make the most preferred deer bait, and in the fall, it always looks like there was a deer convention under my apple trees in the middle of the night.
@wandabanks6756
3 жыл бұрын
Do you search for new species?
@Dominic.Minischetti
3 жыл бұрын
@@wandabanks6756 I do not actively search for them.
@douglascooke1926
6 жыл бұрын
John Chapman passed through the area where I live in WV, and allegedly planted the Grimes Golden apple, which was discovered a couple of miles from my house. Where I have one growing in my yard.
@rick9977015
5 жыл бұрын
What an interesting video, backin 1990...my parents took us to up to Michigan and we became Migrant workers there. Picking pickles, tomatoes, bell peppers and later in the year.. Apples! I have yet to find some of those delicious apples that we picked in Michigan now that i am back home here in the South. Thank you for the video, brought some really good memories of Michigan.
@UtahSustainGardening
5 жыл бұрын
As a horticulturist I really enjoyed this episode!
@petersmafield8722
5 жыл бұрын
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. As I understand it Johnny Appleseed would first take the Appleseed and sprout them in small pots or plats until he had several hundred small apple trees as they were growing in the plats he would be in the process of clearing the forest so that he could then plant the small apple trees and he kept moving around and doing the same thing over and over again until he had in effect a very large number of small farms each with its own apple orchard. There is a rumor that there are still several of these apple orchards scattered around Ohio that have never actually been legally claimed by anyone. If you remember your American folklore and history to remember a character called Johnny Appleseed I don’t think his last name actually is Appleseed I think that just became part of the folklore. He was a real person and he actually became quite wealthy by traveling around Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and parts of northern counties of present-day West Virginia. because there was an old law that said you could get something like 20 acres for free if you planted so many apple trees he did that Johnny Appleseed ended up with several farms that totaled several hundred acres. So that when he died he was worth several hundred thousand dollars. You can find out the exact amounts by looking up his history. You can find information regarding Johnny Appleseed online. Look it up for yourself. You should check the facts as I may have gotten some of the details wrong. To my mind and taste the golden delicious apple well for that matter all of the apples that start with the name delicious are disgusting and should never be eaten by anyone. I’ve been given apples for free and if they are any of the delicious apples I first try to give them away because I don’t believe in waste and I know some people actually like them but if I can’t I simply throw them away.
@elainegreen5855
6 жыл бұрын
I love your channel!! Thank you, so much for doing such a great job!!
@bundaboy2974
2 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. Years ago, I got tired of seeing the same old apple varieties sold in grocery stores. I knew there were many different kinds b/c we had local orchards where I grew up. Thank you!!
@stuffeyemake6506
5 жыл бұрын
WOW , that IS an amazing snippet of history , when put in context of the role of food in civilization ! i love your videos , sorry im too broke to support your channel :(
@jasonc3522
5 жыл бұрын
Learning that Apple trees that are thought to be extinct may still be found makes me want to go find abandoned homesteads in Western North Carolina and find some old Apple trees.
@whitepumpkin1
Жыл бұрын
Loom up Henry brown
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@mikemcnamara1986
6 жыл бұрын
Still working on your back catalog. Not only is this episode especially delicious, it put an apple in my eye and a huge grin on my face. Thank you.
@ronriesinger7755
5 жыл бұрын
My family has enjoyed attending the apple festival at Portland Nursery in Portland, Oregon since our daughters were born. The nursery features nearly one hundred varieties that can be sampled for free, while listening to local bands, enjoying craft making and mixing with neighbors and friends. True Americana on a beautiful fall afternoon!
@jasonmgavitt2357
5 жыл бұрын
We grow golden russets and Baldwin, and other odd varieties at the farm I live and work at.in maine lots of folks are preserving older varieties.
@djolley61
5 жыл бұрын
The same can be said for many varieties of squash and other crops developed by both European settlers and American Indians. Many have been lost. A bean called the Pioneer Pink-Eyed Bean used to be popular in Utah and was mostly forgotten. A single family saved it from extinction and donated some of the beans to a local seed farmer who is growing them and making them available for gardeners to plant.
@jacobmoriancumer7588
4 жыл бұрын
My school, BYU-Idaho, has one of the largest and most varied apple orchards in the region, with over 150 different kinds of apple and fruit trees. This video gave me a new appreciation for those trees!
@johnkelley9877
6 жыл бұрын
A great tutorial on the apple. I was unaware there were so many varieties. Thanks for sharing this.
@sylviahacker6695
5 жыл бұрын
Great episode! I'm going to share it with my gardening group.
@Mark-zu6oz
5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad people are looking for these old varieties. Once in a while I can find an old variety at roadside produce stands. There are quite a few places in New England that used to be orchards but the land was developed into houses and condos. It's not uncommon to see a few old apple trees still blooming on the periphery every Spring.
@michaelmaselly5298
5 жыл бұрын
excellent I live in central new york state and this is apple country the weather, hills, winds and varieties are cultivated like wine in france
@Branjensen27
5 жыл бұрын
That was far more interesting than i thought it would be
@robertgutheridge9672
6 жыл бұрын
Well done. And even more interesting to me as I live in Yakima Washington one of the largest apple growing area's of the world. As a teenager I picked them and working in a few packing warehouses. I have a suggestion for a episode. On hop's 80% of the worlds hop's are grown right here in the Yakima valley. If you do I have absolutely no doubt it will be a great view please continue with your great work. Thanks Rob G
@michelepraught1600
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, History Guy. So glad I was sent to check out your channel. Such great material and presentation. I'd say you should podcast but it's too much fun to watch. Keep it coming.
@adhhxgxhhg
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for making these consice and informitive videos, hope you keep up the good work.
@valsblackcatsrule8740
5 жыл бұрын
I so love apples! Living in New York State, I must tout our apples. Always better than Washington apples. And, living in an apple-rich area of Western NY, with many farmer's markets, fresh is best! Thank you for sharing a part of your day with us!
@stevegallagher687
5 жыл бұрын
Love this channel. A wonderful example of the power for good of internet media. Being a history buff this channel is a wealth of knowledge and entertainment. Thanks to all people involved in it’s production. I think this fall I’m going to be stopping at many farm markets while out touring with my motorcycle looking for heirloom apples. Now to find out where are the best places to look. Sounds like a challenge.
@kevenquinlan
11 ай бұрын
Great vid. I'm from MN. When I was a kid there were almost no varieties of apples. Always with the Red and Delicious which, though red, isn't delicious at all and I hated them. McIntosh you could get sometimes, Golden sometimes and Granny smith's, which you really only use for pies. SO= I never really liked apples all that much. I did used to eat Crab apples off the tree's but they are very tart and not for everyone. Now, the amount of different ones you can buy= are awesome. I even eat apples once in a while and I don't care for fruit much. The Honey Crisp is great/ the Jazz is great/ but the Pazazz is my favorite. Crisp, Sweet, Tender, Juicy- it has all the things most people would want in an eating apple. Though fascinating the varieties I don't feel it's a loss to have just the 11 we have. A lot of the others really aren't all that great. 1st= most people don't bake anymore, so they don't bake pies, which used to be very common. Also, we don't drink much cider or hard cider, so those kinds also got nixed. The group we have now represent a good selection of eating apples, I think. Some I still don't like, the Pink Lady, though sweet- is a very Hard apple, I don't care to indulge in. So, though many varieties are lost to time, I think the focus on the ones we have are the most suitable for consumption.
@ofands
5 жыл бұрын
Holy crud that was so interesting! I was wondering how you were going to do 10 minutes on apples but I could have listened to that history for hours! Thank you for your vids! You do excellent work and I really appreciate it! Thank you
@Smileybaloney
5 жыл бұрын
This is a great episode. It was a great expansion on the Apple.chapter in Michael Pollan's book, The Botany of Desire.
@thomashughes_teh
5 жыл бұрын
My Grandmother's family routinely canned batches of home made applesauce from unattractive and damaged apples bought at a bargain at the corner grocery.
@poorpauly1308
5 жыл бұрын
Living in Washington State (Apple country) I found this specially interesting. In Western Washington you can find apple trees in some very remote places.
@r.awilliams9815
5 жыл бұрын
True that. I once found an abandoned orchard in eastern Whatcom County, with some amazing apples that I later found out were Gravensteins. I went back a few years later and they were gone, a single wide trailer parked where the trees had been.
@mikelakner5622
5 жыл бұрын
A history a day keeps the dullard away.
@michaeljohnson1057
5 жыл бұрын
fantastic episode...thank you for the work you do...
@stevemartin6594
3 жыл бұрын
Very well presented. As someone who has worked with apples all my life I found your facts to be quite accurate. I even learned a new fact or two. While you alluded to it it should be emphasized that the vast majority of apples could simply not be marketed economically today. As someone who has tried hard to keep a few heritage varieties alive it fast becomes very evident that people’s tastes and expectations have changed. Ultimately 5he customer is king.
@schweizer1940
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome, Thank you, you are the best! I live in Germany, but enjoy your productions more than any other!
@johndifrancisco3642
5 жыл бұрын
This was a surprisingly nice change in subject matter. I want to grow Apple trees now!
@fyrequeene
5 жыл бұрын
Utterly fascinating. Who knew apples could be so interesting?
@bighaasfly
5 жыл бұрын
What a great story! Really enjoyed your piece about bananas a while back too. Thanks so much!
@TheMosinCrate
5 жыл бұрын
I went to the battlefield of New Market(battle of lost shoes) in VA earlier this year. The apple trees that were on the grounds were there during the battle. I was tickled to death to find some apples on the trees which I picked a few and kept the seeds. I'll be planting them on our farm here over the next few months and will name them New Market Apples. No idea what they'll taste like though!
@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059
10 күн бұрын
There is an apple orchard in Colorado Montezumas Orchard, that collects and grows oddball/antique/vintage varieties from peoples yards or old orchards etc all over the country. You may want to look them up.
@laurie1536
6 жыл бұрын
What an interesting snippet on Apple history! Our few trees here are loaded right now and almost ready to harvest.
@therightstuffAK
6 жыл бұрын
Please continue to make these excellent videos, as they aren't too long, have lots of background information, and superb imagery! If you could, I'd love to see a few videos involving the early days (1950s-1960s) of space exploration, and the lesser known stories and challenges of that era in the quest to reach space and, ultimately, the moon. Thank you!
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
6 жыл бұрын
I have a couple on my list. I do enjoy space topics.
@DoReMi123acb
5 жыл бұрын
Great video. My favorite apples are Granny Smiths (sadly only grown in the US), McIntosh (nice and tart, but softens too easily), and Ida reds (tart and and sweet and quite firm). I don't like my apples too sweet. Sorry red delicious.
@IMBlakeley
3 жыл бұрын
I lived in the Southern UK in Sussex from 1993 until 2007 and not far from me was Kirdford Growers now sadly gone. They used to sell several varieties of apple no longer cultivated in commercial numbers and not available in large stores. I suspect some of those are now gone for good.
@zepter00
5 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Poland. Even Aples are just 1,25 % of Polish GDP we are second, sometimes third bigest Apple producer in the world.
@kevdadd1976
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Winchester va and this is right up my alley, the history guy is best
@wholeNwon
5 жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable presentation. It's a tragedy that so many Americans have only tasted really horrible apples like the Red "Delicious". I agree that the Honeycrisp is very good. There's one in my fridge now and finished another last evening.
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