Hello all you beautiful apple tree people I first must apologize that it has been so very long since I’ve made a formal blog post. It has been many months, and I am certain that I don’t need to tell you in great detail why things have been silent from Read more…
GREETINGS ONCE AGAIN Hello my dear friends! Happy new year and happy new decade. I hope all of you had great celebrations during the holiday season and have begun making new year’s resolutions that involve planting and caring for trees, and one another. First off, I want to say loudly Read more…
Hey Folks! This blog post is ALL about the 1st Annual Wild and Seedling Pomological Exhibition. What it is, things to remember and how you can participate in what I hope will be a historic gathering of apple genetics on this continent! I am going to try and keep it Read more…
Hello again my dear tree people, It has been a very long time – I know. Since my last post, a lot has happened: pruning season has finished up, scion collection season came and went, grafting season too, and with the first summer apples coming off the trees, I greet Read more…
Hello tree fam, I have been missing you all. These colder months get me on a bit of a one-track mind. Dormant season tree tasks dominate the schedule: pruning, and harvesting scion wood. I have had less time to keep you all informed of my goings-on in the pomosphere. To Read more…
Greetings again my dear apple fam ! Turning another page on the calendar, we are now looking toward the Winter’s work; the exploits of dormant life, if you will. For me, and for many of those reading this, that means pruning fruit trees, planning for next year, and, come the Read more…
Hello once again, all! I am happy to return to the blog section of the site on the other shore of a very wet and rapid apple harvest. The 2018 harvest was very unique, to be sure, and it’s surreal to be writing this blog post having had several inches Read more…
Greetings again to all my wild apple lovin’ monkeys. I’ve missed y’all! Hope you’ve all been staying dry — after this latest string of monsoon-like weather we are now up to a record 12 inches of rainfall in the last 5 weeks. This truly astonishing amount of wetness is certainly Read more…
Hello again you all, My quiet retreat from the blog section of the website is now officially over! With Spring finally touching ground this week, we are all rocking out to the warmer weather. Some of you may have begun to notice some apple tree buds swelling, perhaps at silver Read more…
Happy New Year, friends! After an amazing, abundant, challenging year of work and play in the world of apples, we have arrived at the helm of a new year, a new chance, a new go-round the sun. I resolve in 2018 to write more regularly, and to better document the Read more…