Unveiling Secrets and Shadows: A Riveting Journey in The Light Between Apple Trees
But it isn’t wholly nostalgia that fuels Ms. Kumar, because her observations and orchard visits plainly chart the damage that both consolidated farming and climate change have wreaked on her state (and elsewhere in North America). Americans so loved apples that there were more than a hundred varieties at the beginning of the twentieth century. Orchards, including Thomas Jefferson’s at Monticello, were home to multiple varieties, a strategy that made as much botanical sense then as it does now — a wide selection of varieties not only improves pollination but also helps orchardists recognize strains of resistance to disease and climatic stress.
