Mastodawn

🍏 Every apple holds a small universe of texture, color, and orchard biology. Bite, browning, and blossom reveal quiet patterns shaped by physics and living systems.

✍️ Explore the hidden architecture of apples: https://TPC8.short.gy/SV78UWo6

🌱 A single fruit can carry many stories at once.

#apples #science #foodscience #orchards #TPC8

The Apple’s Many Personalities: A Guide to Apple Varieties, Flavor, and Crunch 🍎

Explore apple varieties worldwide, from crisp to tender. Learn flavor, aroma, crunch science, cooking traits, and nutrition basics.

Glen L Creasy Mar 1

Wassailing, which I always associated with spiced hard cider and Christmas carols, turns out (also) to be a pagan fertility rite focussing on fruit trees, which is gaining in popularity!

Inside Europe did a story on this the week before last (starts at 48:15)...

https://www.dw.com/en/more-trouble-for-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer/audio-76057779

More detail on the celebration here
https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/traditions/wassailing/

#MorrisDancing #Orchards #PaganTrivia

More trouble for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer?

A UK by-election that could spell trouble for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a wrap-up of the Munich Security Conference, a look at the Berlinale and whether it’s still political, and France’s last newspaper hawker. Then: efforts to rebuild Aghdam, US trans people seeking asylum in the Netherlands, and a pagan tradition seeing a revival — wassailing. + film.macht.kritisch https://shorturl.at/OTkz1 +

dw.com

Glen L Creasy Feb 20

Interest in installing solar panels in vineyards is growing. Here's a paper from Australia that examines their impact on pear trees & fruit.

tl/dr Panels created shade, which reduced yield, sugar concentration & color, but lessened impacts of extreme weather (heat and hail).

This study used fixed panels at 45° and 5°, with the latter causing greater crop losses, but power production was similar.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423826000555

#Agrivoltaism #SolarPower #Orchards #FruitTrees #Research

nationalparks Feb 24

2026 research includes historic orchards in Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/culturallandscapes/historic-orchards-in-national-parks.htm and https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/historyculture/historicalorchards.htm and https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&inst=01NAL_INST&collectionId=81279629860007426 and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #rain #apple Image credit (1) R. C. Steadman / USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection and (2) Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #travel #phenology #plants #orchard #orchards #history #culture #usda #pomology

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hicksy2 Feb 12

https://opencollective.com/great-northern-fruit-moot/events/great-northern-fruit-moot-2026-5845352c/updates/fruit-moot-2026-timetable#new-update

I won't be attending due to too much on at work. Last minute 'publicity' for Northern fruit growers? #sheffield #allotment #orchards #cider #permaculture