In an Ohio Apple Grove, Researchers Race to Save Rare Varieties

The American apple industry is concentrated almost entirely on a handful of varieties. Just 15 apples account for roughly 90 percent of the market. In contrast, Central Asia’s thousands of wild apple varieties offered untold diversity from trees that had borne fruit across centuries of cultivation. On the second half of the expedition in 2005, […] The post In an Ohio Apple Grove, Researchers Race to Save Rare Varieties appeared first on Civil Eats.