There are too many apples in the world. Far too many. Too much cropland is taken up producing a product falling out of cultural favour. For 120 years in Canada, the solution […]
Climate Resilience in Okanagan Agriculture 4: Rewilding Apples
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
All apple trees are grafted on a root. The tree is chosen for its apples and the root for its growth characteristics. These days, an apple called M9, for Malling 9, after […]
High Quality Apples in the Okanagan Valley?
Yesterday I showed you how the lack of art in farming, and the lack of memory, is rendering the land not only valueless but turning it into debt. Today, I’ll show you […]
Naming A New Apple
Apples are among the highest glories of human culture. That’s why it’s exciting when B.C. Tree Fruits, the corporation that markets Okanagan apples (and Okanogan apples, too), to the supermarket industry, releases […]
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