Lost Apple Project

this sounds cool from the title, but this website is just an unfinished template - none of the links lead anywhere, and even on the landing page the placeholder text from the template is still present. why bother submitting something this low-value to HN?

I live in an area rich with history of a family that grew apples and pear trees (there is also a direct connection to Laura Secord and how the company trafficked wartime information into/out of the country via chocolate treat deliveries). It must have been a super wealthy family because the neighbourhood is huge, and you can still find apple trees literally everywhere.

One particular school has a veritable grove with massive apple trees that the students surely must love in the autumn. One particular pear tree near my house has a surprise feature of growing both the expected pears AND inosculated branches that sprout mini-pears that appear to be from a completely different breed.

I imagine that the Lost Apple Project would be interested in the area and what grows around here.

This man Tom Brown in North Carolina went "viral" last year for his similar hobby and website:

> My Hobby: Finding "Lost" Apple Varieties

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/dbvyv7/t...

https://applesearch.org/Junaluska_Apple_Discovery.html

Their Facebook page is more current than this website. I hope they offer a Patreon or similar someday soon.

https://www.facebook.com/lostappleproject/

Oh, that Apple!