{"id":389,"date":"2009-03-21T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=389"},"modified":"2009-03-21T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T02:06:51","slug":"so-many-apples-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/so-many-apples-so-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So many apples, so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I left the UW-Madison arboretum last night with a head so full of apple facts and figures that it’ll take a few days here to sort it all out. I now know how to do a graft and why you might want to seal it with paraffin; the difference between native crab apples and imports; to look for heritage trees around the foundations of long-gone farmhouses; why the Shiawanee Beauty may have suddenly disappeared and how the Harrison was successfully restored. I also have really chapped lips from stomping around orchards all yesterday afternoon in the chilly damp of Wisconsin in March.<\/p>\n

Last night’s wrapup featured\u00a0Gary Paul Nabhan<\/a>,\u00a0Ben Watson<\/a>, and\u00a0Curt Meine<\/a>\u00a0holding forth on the some of the more romantic, poetical aspects of apples and apple hunting. Watson read from Thoreau’s long-lost\u00a0“Wild Apples<\/a>” — a passionate appreciation of the ugly, abandoned “feral apples”of the world. \u00a0Meine concluded an inspired series of freewheeling associative anecdotes (had he been nipping at the cider?) with a heartfelt argument for biodiversity as an essential component and incubator of cultural diversity as well. As\u00a0I pulled onto the highway last night I had only a vague sense that I would be able to process it all. And then\u00a0Jean Feraca<\/a>\u00a0came on the radio and announced that her guests that night were . . . Gary Paul Nabhan and Curt Meine. Talking about apples.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you want to give it a listen, it’s\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I left the UW-Madison arboretum last night with a head so full of apple facts and figures that it’ll take a few days here to sort it all out. I now know how to do a graft and why you might want to seal it with paraffin; the difference between native crab apples and imports; … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[317,106,105,101,100,107],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apples","tag-apples","tag-ben-watson","tag-curt-meine","tag-gary-paul-nabhan","tag-raft","tag-thoreau-wild-apples"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}