I've read about this guy before. Really cool. I hope one day to have enough land and time to grow an orchard.
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From the post: "Tom Brown is an apple hunter. He doesn’t have a use for the Red Delicious, the Honeycrisp or the Pink Lady. He’s not impressed by a Fuji or a McIntosh. If you want to talk with him about a Harper’s Seedling, however, his eyes light up. Brown, 82, searched for the rare apple for 16 years before he found the elusive fruit."
The tom brown Im familiar with is different. https://www.trackerschool.com/about/about-tom-brown-jr
Funny I grew up with a tom smith, everytime he told the cops his name they were like sure it is.
Apples taste like slightly sweetened dry baking potatoes. I'm glad he found some old varieties, maybe we can get some good ones in the future.
The modern stuff in the store is garbage that was cultivated to make it travel well and stay/look ripe for longer and to be sweater.
I've had old-world orchard apples. They are often smaller, sometimes sweeter sometimes not but they burse easily but are amazing compared to what you get in the store.
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