Comments on: Saving the First Apple http://www.eatboutique.com/2010/03/08/saving-the-first-apple/ Eat Boutique - Food that hugs you back Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alma http://www.eatboutique.com/2010/03/08/saving-the-first-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 Alma Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.eatboutique.com/?p=2333#comment-2343 I am very interested in finding starts/seeds of these apples, and am a life long sustainable farmer and have a great love of plants. Apples in general are one of my favourites but my name is Alma...so of course i am particularly drawn to this one! Eventually it occurred to me to start looking for how to find these trees i had heard so much about, very little luck. <br> Any knowledge of this? I imagine this to be a rather daunting task unless i go to Kazakhstan...sadly not likely.<br> So sad to hear of the forests being cut down, not surprising i guess but i didn't know that was happening. I am very interested in finding starts/seeds of these apples, and am a life long sustainable farmer and have a great love of plants. Apples in general are one of my favourites but my name is Alma…so of course i am particularly drawn to this one! Eventually it occurred to me to start looking for how to find these trees i had heard so much about, very little luck.
Any knowledge of this? I imagine this to be a rather daunting task unless i go to Kazakhstan…sadly not likely.
So sad to hear of the forests being cut down, not surprising i guess but i didn't know that was happening.

]]> By: Scoot http://www.eatboutique.com/2010/03/08/saving-the-first-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1921 Scoot Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:49 +0000 http://www.eatboutique.com/?p=2333#comment-1921 I'm just now finishing the lengthy book "Guns, Germs, and Steel," about how geography more than almost anything else has influenced the course of human civilization; there's a fair amount in it about how apples are more difficult to cultivate than other fruit trees (because of their need be grafted). The author pinpoints China as the source of cultivation through grafting, but maybe he should have looked to Kazhakstan instead! Another very nice article! A Fan I'm just now finishing the lengthy book "Guns, Germs, and Steel," about how geography more than almost anything else has influenced the course of human civilization; there's a fair amount in it about how apples are more difficult to cultivate than other fruit trees (because of their need be grafted). The author pinpoints China as the source of cultivation through grafting, but maybe he should have looked to Kazhakstan instead! Another very nice article!

A Fan

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