{"id":1696,"date":"2013-04-29T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2013-04-29T02:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:42:50","slug":"why-your-supermarket-only-sells-5-kinds-of-apples-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/why-your-supermarket-only-sells-5-kinds-of-apples-mother-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples | Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1800s, there were thousands of unique varieties of apples in the United States, some of the most astounding diversity ever developed in a food crop. Then industrial agriculture crushed that world. The apple industry settled on a handful of varieties to promote worldwide, and the rest were forgotten. They became commercially extinct\u2014but not quite biologically extinct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/04\/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine?slide=10\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black%2520oxford.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='Black Oxford' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Even when abandoned, an apple tree can live more than 200 years, and, like the Giving Tree in Shel Silverstein&#8217;s book, it will wait patiently for the boy to return. There is a bent old Black Oxford tree in Hallowell, Maine, that is approximately two centuries old and still gives a crop of midnight-purple apples each fall. In places like northern New England, the Appalachian Mountains, and Johnny Appleseed&#8217;s beloved Ohio River Valley\u2014agricultural byways that have escaped the bulldozer\u2014these centenarians hang on, flickering on the edge of existence, their identity often a mystery to the present homeowners. And John Bunker is determined to save as many as he can before they, and he, are gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/04\/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine?slide=10\">Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1800s, there were thousands of unique varieties of apples in the United States, some of the most astounding diversity ever developed in a food crop. Then industrial agriculture crushed that world. The apple industry settled on a handful of varieties to promote worldwide, and the rest were forgotten. They became commercially extinct\u2014but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}