Saturday, November 1, 2008

Orchards dying out?


I found this distressing article from September about rare and heirloom varieties of orchard fruit dying out in the British Isles. This represents a tragic loss not only of fruit varieties but also of habitat for virtually millions of living things.

3 comments :

Anne said...

I stumbled across this lovely poem and journal post, and it made me think of you! Amazing use of heirloom apple names: http://loststones.blogspot.com/2008/10/for-apple-day.html

Peg said...

thank you! that is simply wonderful I am going to feature it in its own post!

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