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Subject: Cider Digest #2039, 24 September 2016
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Cider Digest #2039 24 September 2016
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
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Event: October 1, Heirloom Apple ID with Ben Watson, Sandwich, NH (Martha ...)
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Subject: Event: October 1, Heirloom Apple ID with Ben Watson, Sandwich, NH
From: Martha Carlson <martharudycarlson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:36:19 -0400
Sandwich Apple Project Looks for Heirlooms
What kind of apples grow on that gnarly old tree in your back yard or
woodlot? The Sandwich Apple Project will try to identify those apples at
Discovery, October 1, 1 to 5 p.m. at Range View Farm, Sandwich, NH.
Ben Watson, author of *Cider, Hard & Sweet*, will demonstrate how experts
identify apples by shape, color, taste, texture and even fragrance. Watson
will bring several heirloom apples for tasting.
The Sandwich Apple Project invites anyone to bring a dozen or more apples
from a mystery tree. The apples will be classified and photographed. Then
each apple finder (or Discoverer) will hand around samples for tasting and
tell any lore he or she knows about the apple.
The first settlers who arrived in Sandwich in 1776 planted orchards as soon
as they cleared the forest. Sandwich once produced enough apples to fill a
dozen railroad cars that left Ossipee Junction each fall for Boston
markets.
Today, John Pries and Martha Carlson have launched the Sandwich Apple
Project with the goal of finding lost heirloom apples. Next spring twigs
from Discovery trees can be grafted onto new rootstock so the apples can be
brought back into production.
The Project began last spring when members of the Sandwich Agricultural
Committee met at Range View to graft a few twigs from an old tree at Lower
Corners, the first settlement in Sandwich, and another from North Sandwich.
Discovery is open to the public and is free. Anyone who wishes to bring
apples should harvest the apple tree as soon as the apples ripen. Keep the
apples in a cool place, away from bears, until October 1.
Participants are invited to help Rudy Carlson make cider. Bring a peck or
a bushel of apples and jugs for that. Participants are also invited to
bring apple desserts for general tasting.
Watson hopes to bring samples of Granite Beauty, Milden and other historic
New Hampshire apples. He will talk about apple biology and offer some tips
and resources for fruit exploring, identification and propogation.
For more information and to let us know you are coming, contact
appleproject@sandwichfarmersmarket.org. Range View Farm is at 342 Vittum
Hill Road, Sandwich.
Apples and apple Discoverers from other towns are welcomed.
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