Finding Lost Apples

North America once had 17,000 named varieties of domesticated apples. Today, only 4,500 are known to exist. However, all is not lost: the Lost Apple Project, working from evidence that settlers planted several hundred varieties in the Pacific Northwest, has scoured their trails to try to find heirs of those trees. A team of Lost Apple investigators rediscovered 10 apple varieties that had been thought extinct, found in 140-year-old orchards in canyons and forests in Idaho and Washington. Check out their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/lostappleproject/