Dan Bussey talk and spring grafting
Folks from the Historic Fruit Tree Working Group of North America visiting the USDA ARS in Ft. Collins (December 2023).
Hello Apple Tree Project supporters! I am sorry to have neglected to post about our Apple Symposium in December 2023! We were so excited to be joined by the researchers, explorers, and historians of the Historic Fruit Tree Working Group of North America. Over two days, we visited the USDA ARS in Ft. Collins, sat for a panel discussion with students, learned about apple phenotypic from John Bunker, and learned about Dan Bussey’s journey in the creation of the Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada.
It is almost grafting season! This year, we are excited to join Benevolence Orchard and Widespread Malus for a grafting workshop on Saturday, April 6, from 1-3pm at Benevolence Orchard on Jay Road.
Meet some of the students who helped to make the OSMP orchard thrive: L-R, Mia, Maya, Noah, Giorgio, Katie, Emma, and Moe. Not pictured: Andrea, Sarah Elizabeth, and Jon.
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We need your help! Grant funding typically covers direct research activities such as experiments and observations. Care and maintenance of an orchard is not covered under research activities. We are inviting our Apple Tree community to be a direct contributor towards student work in the tending of the orchard trees as we enter the second year of the OSMP orchard. You can adopt a tree for $500 and that would provide hand weeding, watering, and pest monitoring for the entire summer by an undergraduate student. If you prefer to support citizen science, for $250 you would be supporting undergraduate computer science students in maintaining and updating the data collection app, interactive map, and the shareable database (coming soon!). A donation of $100 allows us to teach grafting techniques at universities and community colleges across the Front Range. As always, all donations are greatly appreciated and help support our work in identifying and preserving historic cultivars in Colorado! This spring, we will be giving a BATP grafted Colorado Orange cultivar to the top three donors (must be able to pick up the trees from the Boulder area).