This blog originated in the unique artwork by Susan Leibovitz Steinman called “Sweet Survival: Urban Apple Orchard II–an experiment in biodiversity” at the Sonoma Co Museum, Santa Rosa, 2006-2008. The orchard was a pentagon shape raised bed of salvaged doors with 5 cloned apple trees surrounded by saplings grown from seeds collected at public events and from organic farms in Sonoma County. This blog is a grassroots research site to learn from first hand personal stories how the trees grow and what type of apples they might produce. Each apple has 5 seed chambers with enough seeds per tree to grown an apple forest of diverse new varieties. Perhaps one of you who log onto this site and who are growing one of these wild trees will discover an entirely new variety of apple. Let’s see what happens.
