Roxbury Russet

Rising demand for varieties most shoppers had never heard of a decade ago.

Arkansas Black, Roxbury Russet, Winesap.

Apples that carry a story instead of just a shelf life, finding buyers precisely because they're not the apple everybody already knows.

None of this fixes the deeper problems still facing small orchards.

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Roxbury Russet here.

Soham picked one off a tree to show me.

Roxbury Russet, named after a place.

Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1630, around 1630, 1640, in the backyard of Joseph Warren, whose grandchildren would go on to be Revolutionary War heroes, founders of Harvard Medical

School.

So one of the things, one of the ideas that I just love when I Look at an apple, say like a Roxbury russet that dates from about the 1630s.

This apple comes from a tree that comes from a tree that comes from a tree that comes from a tree that was the original tree.