There are over 7,500 apple varieties around the world (and counting), each with its own unique history, spanning heirloom apples that have withstood the test of time and new types of apples coming ...

The University of Georgia’s Heritage Apple Orchard is home to 138 varieties of heirloom apples that were once in circulation ...

© 2024 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. BLAIRSVILLE — With the fall foliage of the North Georgia Mountains showing off on a late October ...

and the deeper you fall under the spell of heirloom apple varieties, which number in the hundreds, the more you will hunger to try them. You'll want to start small if you don't own an orchard ...

“Heirloom” carries the patina of history ... but hasn’t science rendered these older apple varieties obsolete? Are they really worth all the fuss? Fancying myself a devoted apple squire ...

Hundreds of neglected heritage apple varieties are being revived due to the rise of community orchards. Regional varieties, such as Arlingham Schoolboys and Ashmead's Kernel, are thriving as keen ...

has spent the past decade tromping through 100-year-old orchards and poring over old records to discover nearly 30 local apple varieties previously thought "lost." It wasn't long before Benscoter ...

Researchers think the allotments were created in the 30s, but then later abandoned in the 80s, when the allotments fell out of fashion A discovery of 50-year apple blossom trees at an abandoned ...

Ray Covington, superintendent of the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center near Blairsville, takes a bite of a Terry Winter apple, one of the 138 varieties of heritage apples he’s ...