10 Pioneer-era Apple Types, Thought Extinct, Found in Forgotten Orchards Across Pacific Northwest — TIME

(PORTLAND, Ore.) — A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct — the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the nonprofit Lost Apple Project. The Vietnam veteran and former…

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