Jonagold

Keeping an orchard profitable can be difficult at the best of times.

Herefordshire farmer Esther Rudge grows Jonah Gold apples for making juice, but four years ago she was seriously considering grubbing up her 22-acre intensive orchard.

Instead, she thinned out the trees and introduced an agroforestry system.

Bob Hockenhull reports.

Mm-hmm.

It's like, oh, the McIntosh are in late September, and the Jonagold are in, you know, mid-October or whatever.

Um, so I'm looking forward to going there, getting some crisp apples.

I'm not gonna mess with any kinda, like, Red Delicious.

crisp which is right here this is california honey crisp

we're not going to do those right now the jonna gold apple is a lot more common than the jonathan apple because it holds up better it stays crisp longer So you get the fruity notes from the Jonathan Apple with the undertone of the Gold Delicious flavor as well.

So Jonagolds are in the stores now.

They're probably more common than Jonathans.

And I would get Jonagolds if I were you as well.

Absolutely delicious.

So we have a couple of heirloom varieties here.