Source:  Shelby Vittek, MODERN FARMER, 4/5/21


Across the country, cider makers and pome enthusiasts are partaking in seedling projects to diversify the apple kingdom. Ellen Cavalli has a modest apple-hoarding problem. On the back porch of her home, located on the Sonoma County farm where she makes cider with her husband, sits a large refrigerator filled with her collection of more than 100 different kinds of apples and crab apples—which have names like Arkansas Black, Dabinett, Hewe’s Virginia, Rhode Island Greening...

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