Adam's Apples

Things are not pretty here at the end of June. Supermarkets are flush with Honeycrisps picked in August of 2018. Of course the cupboard has been bare at almost every orchard for most of 2019.

It's still about a month before the first local apples are ready to eat here. Apples Yates, Five Crown and Frequin Rouge. Some for the fruit bowl and some for apple crumble 😀🍎 pic.twitter.com/OfZlPTu6Mb — Heritage Fruit Trees (@heritage_fruit) June 22, 2019 But in Australia  (above), there are still plenty of keepers in good shape from the spring harvest.

Apples are from Kazakhstan. But how did they get from there to circle the globe? How did they evolve from the wild, and in response to what evolutionary imperatives? One part of the story: the Silk Road. Another: horses.