Today in the orchard
About 400 apple enthusiasts gathered for The Great Maine Apple Day at MOFGA in Unity. It’s an annual mid-October Sunday afternoon event that features elaborate displays of apple varieties grown in Maine, dozens of different apples for tasting and evaluating, workshops, pie-making, apples for sale and everything apple you could ever imagine.
I spent most of the afternoon identifying apples brought by attendees from across the state. Although now and then I can pull out a name like a rabbit out of a hat, I confess that often I am “stumped.” And it’s the stumped ones that really pique my curiosity. “Where is this tree?… What can you tell me about the tree? … Do you have a photo of this tree? .. This could be something really interesting!"