Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019)

Hugged to death. Archive version here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20201112021733/https://appvoices....

There's an nice episode of a Wyoming PBS series that covers similar work in Wyoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyD74vNdcc.

Related story from AtlasObscura "Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties": https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-a...

Fun facts, apple fruits were originated in Kazakhstan. The progenitor of the domestic apple namely Malus sieversii species is now also threatened with extinction in Kazakhstan's forests [1][2].

[1]http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181120-the-birthplace-of-t...

[2]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/apples-of...