Sunday was the inaugural planting for the Boston Tree Party's plan to plant 100 heirloom apple trees in the Greater Boston area.As reported in the Boston Globe, the group planted a Golden Russet and a Grimes Golden on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, in a ceremony presided over by New Hampshire orchardist Michael Phillips.
The four other heirloom varieties the group lists on its web site are Baldwin, Black Oxford, Esopus Spitzenberg, and Boston-native Roxbury Russet.
The Globe also ran this story earlier this month about how the tree party and its founder, Lisa Gross, hope to grow a network of tree-caring groups that will unite community, public space, and agriculture through "civic fruit."
Hurrah!
Images courtesy of Boston Tree Party
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