Adam's Apples

A taster's-eye view of the apple harvest.
Mostly not here.
If you love #apples, join me & others on my blog, or

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

So many have left this platform and I find myself slipping away too. I won't be checking in so regularly in 2025.

I'd like to stay in touch, so hope you will find me elsewhere: on other social media or my blog, which has subscribe and rss options.

All listed in my profile 1/2

[Peg Aloi @themediawitch]

Doing some research for an article and found this great heirloom apple website. @adapples

https://t.co/MdBJGG40XV

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@themediawitch The one of the people behind it, John Bunker, is kind of a legend in pomological circles.
https://t.co/NrRSiCu5rq

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@allazov_kamal @GooglePEProgram I suppose the plaques on the Wellington monument (the "park towers") depict the "kingdoms." The Phoenix Column has royal arms carved into it.

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

Here's the sort of thing I'm writing this winter.

Join me on my blog or Bluesky, details in my profile.
https://t.co/LJnsJCtnS4

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

As noted, I am mostly out of here, but here is my once-a-year rating of new apples I've had, plus some revisions.

Consider bookmarking or subbing to my blog if you'd like to stay in touch. (Also bluesky etc.) Deets in profile.
https://t.co/s2YZ5sKHyp

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

So many have left this platform and I find myself slipping away too. I won't be checking in so regularly in 2025.

I'd like to stay in touch, so hope you will find me elsewhere: on other social media or my blog, which has subscribe and rss options.

All listed in my profile 1/2

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@AnneLouiseAvery Anne Louise, that bluesky link actually goes to your profile here (Twitter ecks). You might want to repost!

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@gracie88888 Around here things wait until Imbolc.

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

At dusk they went, a-wassailing, carrying lanterns and spiced apple cake and dark polished bowls of lamb's-wool; a happy procession along the frozen lane to the orchards, which lay beyond Old Fox's cottage.
Old Twelfth Night, a very old day, a day still held in the old places of England, a day for waking the bare rounsepiked trees from their winter slumber. Old Fox knew the Dorset dryades well, they were elegant and kindly spirits and very fond of him. And as they sang the songs of new buds and hope a-kindle, the songs of Pan and the songs of Arcadie, the trees began to silver in the winter darkness until they gleamed as bright as the crescent moon above.

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

Good health to all!

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

Wassailing the apple trees traditionally occurs on Old Twelfth Night, 17 Jan. The Queen of the #Wassail (good health) offers the trees in the orchards cider-soaked bread. She then knocks on the trunk of the oldest tree to awaken the Apple Tree Man, the fertility spirit within.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Traditional orchards are now rare habitats in the UK – around two thirds of orchards have been lost since 1960. Fruit trees support a diverse range of wildlife, so planting an apple tree can help boost biodiversity.
How to choose an apple tree: https://t.co/FyewK7pl5X
#nature

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@LGSpace In connection, I must mention @keepersnursery , which can make you a bespoke tree of any of nearly a thousand kinds of #apples. Including many heritage varieties.
https://t.co/lA1qMTtvNI

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@mombannister Thank you!

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

The rise and fall of the apple harvest, as expressed each week at farmers market.

Each block is an apple variety, building to October climax, then dropping off until markets end.
https://t.co/reBp8EuWT6

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

(secretly hoping someone admires my data-graphic chops too)

[Nicola Goodwin 🎙️📺📚🏊‍♀️🏉 @newsynicola]

WASSAIL! 🔥🍎 🇺🇦🇬🇧📚Magical #wassail at #Herefordshire archives thanks to our Ukrainian community, Rotherwas Together history and @jennypipestwee1

[Amy @gracie88888]

I have decided to track this, make a record of my local fortnightly vibe shift. Starting on the winter solstice seems appropriate to me, so tomorrow then.

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@gracie88888 Oh, I like this. Want to see how it goes.

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@stewartwaine @mysticsid1 Hmm don't know this one

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

The apple trees are sleeping now
https://t.co/biNiOpTZBd

[Adam's Apples @adapples]

@growingwisdom We'd just all go to Atlantic time, don't you think? I'll bet the New England states would, at least.