Topic: John Chapman

Johnny Appleseed Day

Golden Delicious, Granny Smiths, McIntosh - with over 7000 different varieties of apples in existence, it's seems appropriate to acknowledge any...

Johnny Appleseed

Appleseed, Johnny, the nickname of John Chapman (1774-1845), a United States pioneer. For almost 50 years, Chapman traveled in Pennsylvania, Ohio...

How to plant apple seeds

The apple tree is a tree of myth and legend. Often depicted as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden in religious circles, the apple tree also has fundamental roots in science. After witnessing an ...
The 32nd Charlevoix Apple Festival taking place from Friday, October 8 through Sunday, October 10, 2010 in Charlevoix, Michigan, is just one of the thousands of apple festivals being held across America during National Apple Month in October. Contrary to popular opinion ...

Quick Facts About Apples

History The Pilgrims raised the first apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s. Missionary John Chapman (1774-1845), also known as Johnny Appleseed, planted apple tree nurseries in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, including the Mohican area of north-central Ohio. Nutrition ...

Johnny Appleseed

Appleseed, Johnny, the nickname of John Chapman (1774-1845), a United States pioneer. For almost 50 years, Chapman traveled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, planting seeds (especially apple seeds) and tending orchards he helped settlers establish along the frontier. He gained a hero ...

Sweet Delicious Waffles

If you didn't read the teaser for this article, you've missed a grand introduction to one of my favorite foods: waffles. They can be exactly the same as you remember when you were a kid, or as complex as the ...

Apples of Your Eye

Sixteen years ago, when I worked at The Planters & Designers garden center in Bristol, Virginia, old-timers frequentlycame in and asked for apple varieties called Virginia Beauty and Yellow Transparent. It turns out that Mr. Morton spread not only the Gospel but some ...
Good food, that's good for you, is sexy. Some of the best foods are naked; free from over-processing and over-packaging. Keep it nutritious, simple, and versatile. Of all the things you would consider sexy, food should be on your short list ...

A greedy, randy idealist

142 STRAND by Rosemary Ashton Chatto, Rosemary Ashton has rather cornered the market in dissecting the lives of the intellectual movers and shakers of early Victorian England. Now, all these and more have walk-on parts (rather more than that in Miss Eliot ...