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2 Dec 2024
So many have left this platform and I find myself slipping away too. I won't be checking in so regularly in 2025.
I'd like to stay in touch, so hope you will find me elsewhere: on other social media or my blog, which has subscribe and rss options.
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Adam's Apples retweeted
26 Mar 2025
Doing some research for an article and found this great heirloom apple website. @adapples
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24 Feb 2025
Here's the sort of thing I'm writing this winter.
Join me on my blog or Bluesky, details in my profile.
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5 Feb 2025
As noted, I am mostly out of here, but here is my once-a-year rating of new apples I've had, plus some revisions.
Consider bookmarking or subbing to my blog if you'd like to stay in touch. (Also bluesky etc.) Deets in profile.
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2 Dec 2024
So many have left this platform and I find myself slipping away too. I won't be checking in so regularly in 2025.
I'd like to stay in touch, so hope you will find me elsewhere: on other social media or my blog, which has subscribe and rss options.
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Adam's Apples retweeted
17 Jan 2025
At dusk they went, a-wassailing, carrying lanterns and spiced apple cake and dark polished bowls of lamb's-wool; a happy procession along the frozen lane to the orchards, which lay beyond Old Fox's cottage.
Old Twelfth Night, a very old day, a day still held in the old places of England, a day for waking the bare rounsepiked trees from their winter slumber. Old Fox knew the Dorset dryades well, they were elegant and kindly spirits and very fond of him. And as they sang the songs of new buds and hope a-kindle, the songs of Pan and the songs of Arcadie, the trees began to silver in the winter darkness until they gleamed as bright as the crescent moon above.
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18 Jan 2025
Good health to all!
17 Jan 2025
Wassailing the apple trees traditionally occurs on Old Twelfth Night, 17 Jan. The Queen of the #Wassail (good health) offers the trees in the orchards cider-soaked bread. She then knocks on the trunk of the oldest tree to awaken the Apple Tree Man, the fertility spirit within.
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Adam's Apples retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Traditional orchards are now rare habitats in the UK β around two thirds of orchards have been lost since 1960. Fruit trees support a diverse range of wildlife, so planting an apple tree can help boost biodiversity.
How to choose an apple tree: bit.ly/45AFzhZ
#nature
ALT Bumblebee on a pink and white apple blossom
ALT Shiny red and green apples in a painted pottery bowl
ALT A single red apple growing on an apple tree branch
ALT Old apple tree covered with pink blossom
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14 Jan 2025
The rise and fall of the apple harvest, as expressed each week at farmers market.
Each block is an apple variety, building to October climax, then dropping off until markets end.
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Adam's Apples retweeted
WASSAIL! π₯π πΊπ¦π¬π§πMagical #wassail at #Herefordshire archives thanks to our Ukrainian community, Rotherwas Together history and @jennypipestwee1
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Adam's Apples retweeted
21 Dec 2024
I have decided to track this, make a record of my local fortnightly vibe shift. Starting on the winter solstice seems appropriate to me, so tomorrow then.
8 Dec 2024
Iβve said before that the fortnight is the perfect unit of measurement for time.
In temperate climes, there are differences in weather, foliage, food, and holiday decorations every 2 weeks or so. A vibe change
We should have 26 fortnights instead of 4 seasons or 12 months.
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13 Dec 2024
Classic apple for streudel.
Named for...its shape! (Get it?) #apples
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Glockenapfel*
Bell-shpaed Glockenapfel is the traditional apple for strudel.
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Adam's Apples retweeted
9 Dec 2024
Not sure what to gift the orchard enthusiast in your life? π
Darren from @OrchardNotes has compiled a reading list that's sure to delight any fruit-tree lover. Maybe you'll even find something to add to your wishlist π
Check it out here: lght.ly/n07eobf
ALT Botanical illustration of apples, leaves, and blossom.
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10 Dec 2024
This shouldn't matter but I just have to say how much I admire the name of these #apples, at once old and new.
Have you tried WineCrisp? Check out our blog about them today.
honeycrisp.com/thewcapple
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10 Dec 2024
I rate them highly. Crunchy and much more richly flavored than the current crop of Honeycrisp would-bees.
Another great apple from the PRI breeding coop #apples
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6 Dec 2024
Two Colonial-era Americans. One known to apple nerds; the other legendary.
Turns out they are related. #apples
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Adam's Apples retweeted
5 Dec 2024
'Barnack Beauty', a delicious dessert apple, local to me, illustrated in 1921 by Arthur Rackham for Eden Phillpotts's whimsical 'A Dish of Apples'.
"Not until every leaf has flown
Will he desert his summer throne."
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2 Dec 2024
So many have left this platform and I find myself slipping away too. I won't be checking in so regularly in 2025.
I'd like to stay in touch, so hope you will find me elsewhere: on other social media or my blog, which has subscribe and rss options.
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2 Dec 2024
...in my profile, and as follows:
adamapples.blogspot.com
bsky.app/profile/adapples.bsβ¦
mstdn.social/@adapples
For a handy, and growing, list of #apples, bookmark this:
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Happy December! It was great while it lasted.
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Adam's Apples retweeted
29 Nov 2024
Here Are my Apple Harvest Highlights β 2024 Edition:
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Starring 'Ellison's Orange', 'Pitmaston Pine Apple', 'Herefordshire Russet', 'Winter Gem', Tydeman's Early Worcester' and many more...
#apples #orchard #NTQBfruit #allotment
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