Apple Season in Full Swing
IT WAS A GREAT DAY Saturday for apple lovers of all ages as they flocked to New England apple orchards…
Meet the Apples and Artists
TWO OF NEW ENGLAND’s leading strengths — the diversity of its apples and orchards, and its preeminence in ciders — will…
A Good Crop of Apples (and Art)!
NEW ENGLAND EXPECTS a good apple crop in 2021, a welcome development after last year’s smaller-than-normal one. Apple growers face a…
10 Overlooked Apples for Apple Lemon Cake
PART OF THE BEAUTY of New England’s orchards is their diversity, in size, location, crops, and, especially, their apple varieties. More…
Apple Rhapsody
“A WORD OF CAUTION to those entering an apple orchard for the first time: the experience can be overwhelming. Apples are…
Mid-season Pleasures: Empire and Spencer
IT TAKES YEARS, sometimes decades, between the time an apple variety is discovered and it becomes available to the public….
New England Apples from Neighboring New York
ALTHOUGH THEY SOMETIMES COMPETE in the marketplace, New England and New York apple growers have a long tradition of cooperation…
Rare, Strange, and Delicious: English Apples in New England
IT HAS NOT PRODUCED a new apple for a century. Its apples are typically small — in one instance, no bigger than…
Fresh Spencers in Mrs. Cheney’s Nobby Apple Cake
ONE OF THE NEWER and less heralded of the offspring of McIntosh is Spencer. Spencer is a cross of McIntosh…
A Healthy Outlook for New England Apples; Introducing Akane and Sansa
NEW ENGLAND’S APPLE ORCHARDS expect a good crop this fall with an estimated 3.5 million 42-pound boxes, just under the…
Orange New England Apples
MOST PEOPLE THINK RED first when they think of apples. This takes in a multitude of varieties, after all, like…