[Sca-cooks] Fw: Request from Akim

[Stefan li Rous]

Kiri commented:
> I think it's a grand idea, and would love to support it...but beyond
> having the joy of seeing a possibly extinct variety saved for 
> posterity,
> I'm not sure how I personally could collect the fruit from the tree,
> living in southern Maryland.  Is there any way you could possibly come
> up with a way that we could have the fruit shipped to us...keeping, of
> course, a quantity of the fruit for your own purposes?  If that could 
> be
> done, I think I could persuade my "sweetie" to let us participate.
Like Kiri, I couldn't get there to do any harvesting.

In addition, I have no idea which apple or fruit tree I would want.
What is the number of fruit that would likely be obtained from a single 
tree? I would prefer to go in with a group of people and get a mixture 
of fruits or apple varieties, understanding that the amount would vary 
from year to year. From an educational standpoint, I think being able 
to buy a mixture of fruits would also advance that goal more so than a 
homogenous or single tree approach.

 From earlier comments on this list I did check out some of the sites 
that sell heritage apples with the idea that this would be a way to 
sample a variety of period apples and apple types. Unfortunately, very 
few of the apples they were selling were period and I can't seem to 
remember to place an order in the time period in which they are 
available. I would love to be able to subscribe to a program where I 
got a selection of fruits. I'd certainly be willing to take less than a 
whole tree's worth to cover the various bits of overhead, packing and 
shipping etc and the understanding that the amount would vary from year 
to year.

Stefan
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