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Synopsis of the 2024 Apple Symposium at the CU Museum of Natural Hisory.

Dan Bussey presentation at Apple Symposium 2023 and visit from the Historic Fruit Tree Working Group of North America.

agriCULTURE event at Ollie Farms on Sunday!

The Orchard has been planted!

Join the BATP as we support the Widespread Malus Grafting Workshop at Benevolence Orchard on Saturday, April 8, from time to time. Please be sure to register

We were pleased to host John Bunker for Apple Symposium 2022.

We are collecting oral histories and would love to hear your story. Now is the time!

The Boulder Apple Tree Project has a new manuscript available in Plants People Planet entitled “What's in a name? The importance of identity in heirloom apple tree preservation”

Meet Team Smart Apples: the students who created the BATP Collect App.

While the trees are still dormant, we are busily collecting apple scions for grafting in the spring!

Apple Blitz: Importance in Finding New Varieties; a student reflection from Sahara Becerra

Article in Boulder Weekly called Core Values and BOCO Ciders making a local “Melting Pot” MUTT blend cider.

AppleBlitz 2021 is in two weeks! Register today!

Undergraduate students continue to map and measure apple trees in the Boulder community during the summer of 2021.

Students and community members practice cleft grafting techniques to support preservation of apple varieties in Boulder.

Student Experience Feature: Madeleine Ross discusses Urban Heat Islands and experience in Urban Ecology CURE course

Student Experience Feature: Alyssa Dowling discusses food deserts and experience in Urban Ecology CURE course

We hope that you will enjoy the virtual bike tour of Boulder as led by student Eliza Fink.

Please enjoy the presentations from the 2020 Virtual Apple Symposium.

Apple Apparitions are a fun and fruity alternative to jack-o-lanterns for Halloween decorations!

The Project’s History Team has been very busy this summer! Earlier in June, Amelia Brackett-Hogstad and Chance Nelson gave a lecture to the Indian Peaks Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society. UROP students have been busy curating apple history stories as well.

Check out the Interactive Map!

Updates from the History Team at BATP

When propagating apple trees for use in lab classes the Boulder Apple Tree Project utilizes a cleft grafting method.

We are happy to announce that we will be hosting the Boulder Apple Tree History Symposium in conjunction with the HIST 2326 class and the Museum of Natural History at CU on Sunday, April 26, from 1-4PM at the Henderson Building Paleontology Hall. This symposium will focus on the history of apples in Boulder County and will feature round-table discussions facilitated by the students enrolled in HIST 2326 this semester. Please register early for this free event (registration capped at 100). Parking fees do apply.

Irfan uses a safety jig made by Widespread Malus to safely prepare root stock for grafting.

Help create the future Apple Tree Project Orchard!