This pub for growers makes a very good point about heat and farmworker safety. MIsses a scarier one about future fruit crops 1/5 goodfruit.com/turning-up-the…
YES, safety for those farmworkers is super important! But take another look at those maps. Can you grow the same #apples once the climate changes +4 degrees?
Because that is where we are heading 2/5 goodfruit.com/wp-content/upl…
Because that is where we are heading 2/5 goodfruit.com/wp-content/upl…
New England has an apple heritage that is almost 400 years old.
I do not look forward to saying goodby to Macoun, McIntosh, the russets, and others. 3/5
I do not look forward to saying goodby to Macoun, McIntosh, the russets, and others. 3/5
What will growers do when those trees become unproductive or yield inferior fruit?
Will they replace with heritage varieties from Virginia and points south, or just plan the same boring #apples that you can get in supermarkets year round? 4/5
Will they replace with heritage varieties from Virginia and points south, or just plan the same boring #apples that you can get in supermarkets year round? 4/5
Either way, will be sad to see those New England #apples go 5/5
