Arbor Day on the Farm: Celebrating the Trees of Los Poblanos

The DNA results are in, and our oldest fruit tree has a name. She is a Black Twig apple, a variety that dates to the 1830s, discovered as a chance seedling on a Tennessee farm. It is a tart apple, excellent for fresh eating, cider and baking, and one that grows sweeter with time in storage. Today it is considered a rare specialty variety, largely edged out of commercial production by modern cultivars. To have one standing here, planted likely during the Simms era of the 1930s, is something worth marking.