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Post by castanea on Sept 30, 2016 23:15:47 GMT -5
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Oct 1, 2016 1:21:05 GMT -5
no, but that apple looks and sounds good. It really looks like it has some character. I bet people would buy it as it looks like an "heirloom apple".
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Post by copse on Oct 3, 2016 13:49:52 GMT -5
no, but that apple looks and sounds good. It really looks like it has some character. I bet people would buy it as it looks like an "heirloom apple". Do enough people actually want buy heirloom looking apples to make it feasible? I was watching some youtube about a British guy who has an extensive orchard of heirloom apples and with his wife, had gone through with the idea that taking them to the farmer's market, people would be glad to get something other than what's in the supermarkets (blemish free and with standard checklist of characteristics). He mentioned that people just weren't interested and they'd given up on it. |
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Post by richardw on Oct 3, 2016 14:16:45 GMT -5
no, but that apple looks and sounds good. It really looks like it has some character. I bet people would buy it as it looks like an "heirloom apple". Do enough people actually want buy heirloom looking apples to make it feasible? I was watching some youtube about a British guy who has an extensive orchard of heirloom apples and with his wife, had gone through with the idea that taking them to the farmer's market, people would be glad to get something other than what's in the supermarkets (blemish free and with standard checklist of characteristics). He mentioned that people just weren't interested and they'd given up on it. Depends where you try and sell those heirloom apples, highly urbanized populations are so disconnected from there food that yes, he was doomed to fail. copse if we were to sell at a market in say somewhere like Nelson or Waiheke they would sell well. he just didn't investigate his market. |
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Post by coppice on Oct 4, 2016 7:31:55 GMT -5
I go and buy from my local farmers market at least in october. I buy the oldest types of apples I can find. I also buy out all the local nuts. (not that there are all that many of them on offer).
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Post by prairiegarden on Oct 4, 2016 7:58:10 GMT -5
The gmo apple that won't brown when cut is apparently going to hit the market big time in the next 5 years or less, it will be interesting to see what sort of reaction it gets. Reading this morning about gmo chickens and cows, the chickens are supposed to be susceptible to avion flu but unable to infect, it gets stranded In the bird somehow, and the cows are supposed to give milk which lacks the proteins or sugars which cause allergic reactions. Brave New World...I'm glad I grew up when food was food. Maybe they could cross a cow with sugar cane and cocoa and have it give chocolate milk. Apparently quite a number kids think that brown cows already do.
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Post by steev on Oct 4, 2016 10:25:36 GMT -5
Is anybody working on chickens that lay hard-boiled eggs?
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Post by philagardener on Oct 4, 2016 16:39:11 GMT -5
Lots of local nuts around here but some have thin shells . . .  |
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