Adam's Apples

Despite 60° (F) weather, apple buds are dormant on the trees at Hutchins Farm in Concord, Massachusetts, earlier today. As a follow-up to yesterday's substantially revised report , it looks as though the warm weather here has not roused the apple trees from their protective winter sleep. Winter is not done with us yet.

Update: These are peach trees. A fuschia cloud of buds hovers low over Carlson Orchard in Harvard, Massachusetts, earlier today

Macoun King David Macoun , the queen of vinous apples, is just not 100% if grown in Virginia. King David , apple of the South, does not reach its peak here in New England. I shall miss Macoun. I am not going anywhere. But the climate is. The Nature Conservancy finds that the climate in neighboring Vermont is likely to " become like that of southern Virginia ." The good news, I guess, is that Virginia boasts some great apples. They just aren't the ones that do well up here, for the most part. The ones linked intimately with our sense of place. The ones we love. Sure, people grow northern apple...

These maps of climate change got me thinking: The graphics is from a story in the trade publication Good Fruit Grower entitled "Turning Up the Heat Raises Risks for Ag Workers." The story covers a recent study that prescribes best heat-beating practices (such as clothing types and incentivizing hydration) to protect agricultural workers. All good points—really good points—but also This pub for growers makes a very good point about heat and farmworker safety. Misses a scarier one about future fruit crops 1/5 https://t.co/Y3i3GER6mJ — Adam's Apples (@adapples) August 24, 2020