October 21, 2026: Celebrating the Apple

Podcast: bsnsHistory · bsnsBasics

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

A tree marked for removal at a Minnesota research station and an abandoned London market that hadn't sold fruit in sixteen years both proved the same unlikely lesson about produce and business value. On October 21, 1990, the UK charity Common Ground, founded by Sue Clifford and Angela King, held the first Apple Day at Covent Garden's old Apple Market, a celebration meant to protect disappearing orchards and apple varieties that grew into a nationwide tradition over the following two decades. Around the same era, University of Minnesota breeder David Bedford saved a nearly discarded test tree that would...