Eastmans Antique Apples

A very interesting article from National Geographic that highlights the importance of the worlds antique and heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/food-ark/siebert-text

There is always so much to learn about apples! I am constantly amazed at the rich and varied history that is contained in our orchard! I Was wondering about the health benefits today and found this wonderful article.  This is from the conclusion of the paper:

“In numerous epidemiological studies, apples have been associated with a decreased risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and asthma. In vitro and animal studies have demonstrated that apples have high antioxidant activity, can inhibit cancer cell proliferation, decrease lipid oxidation, and lower cholesterol, potentially explaining their role in reducing risk of chronic disease.”

The whole paper is fascinating and worth reading. I can’t help but think about the variation in health benefits of the different varieties of apples that the authors tested. It makes me wonder what could be found if all 1500 varieties in our orchard were tested!

Please take a look at the paper and let us know what you think.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1475-2891-3-5.pdf

Sinta
Dean Watt’s Scion
Empire
Surprise
Spigold
King Cole
Fourtune
Laking
Jonagold
Deep Red
Gascoyne’s Scarlet
Cinnamon Spice
Cortland
American Beauty
Nothern Spy
Red Butterscotch
Ohio Nonpariel
Jonathan
Reverend Morgan
Wolf River
Holly
McIntosh
Park
New York 674
Sweet Delicious
Fortune (N.Y. 429)
Spencer
Wennersheok
Buckingham
Smoothie (Yellow Delicious)
Thornberry
Hidden Rose
Red Field
Sir Prize
20 Ounce
Northwestern Greening
Aroma
Bonnie Best
Franklin
Russet Beauty
Snow
Holstein
Moore’s Winesap
Jackie’s Favorite
Freedom
Kalco
Edgar
Gala
Blue Pearmain
Webster
And 1 more variety I forgot to write down the name of so we will be having 50 total varieties.Very busy 2 days getting all 50 ready.

Pound Sweet
N.Y. 674
Snow
Wennershoek
Bailey Sweet
Hawaii
Pewaukee
Eastman Sweet
Field Spy
Sweet McIntosh
N.Y. 75414-1
Jon-A-Red
Ribston Pippin
Jonathon Super Jon
Regent
Magnum Bonum
Laking
Wolf River
Big Red Apple
20 Ounce
Cortland
Holstein
Akero
Sweet Delicious
Gascoyne’s Scarlet
Jonagold
Aroma
Cinnamon Spice
B. Walters
Old Home McIntosh
Starkey
Honey Crisp
McIntosh
Thornberry
Jordan Russet
Opalescent
Tollman Sweet
Park
Russet Beauty

Snow
McIntosh
Alaska Pink
American Beauty
Baxter
Holstein
Jonagold
Cortland
Old Home McIntosh
Cinnamon Spice
New York 75414-1
Lugar Red
Cox Orange Pippin
Laking
Honey Crisp
Starkey
Gascoyne’s Scarlet
Wolf River
Twenty Ounce
Ribston Pippin
Aroma Regent
Mott Pink
Jonathon Super Jon
Tollman Sweet
Jon-a -Red

Shay
Winthrup Greening
Wolf River
Fall Pippin
Bonnie Best
Jackie’s Favorite
Lakeland
Regent
Greensleeves
Corland
Holly
Twenty Ounce
Magnum Bonum
Pink Princess
Baxter
Shinko
Cox Orange Pippin
Black Magic
Holstein
Kendall
New York 253
Kidd’s Orange Red
Mother
Pound Sweet
New York 75414-1
Apple # 295
Creswell
Apple #172
Laurared
Kindil Sinap
Old Home McIntosh
Alomhine
Shenandoah
Snow
Super Jon Jonathon
A C Goldspice
Cinnamon Spice
Opalescent
Gala

Laxton’s Fortune

Lots of great tasting apples this week.

Mollies Delicious — Origin: New Brunswick, New Jersey -1966
NY 75414-1 — Origin: Geneva, New York U.S.A.
Creswell – Origin: Eugene, Oregon – 1927
American Beauty — Origin: Sterling, Massachusetts -1854
Cox Orange Pippin – Origin: Slough Bucks, UK. Richard Cox – 1825
Holstein — Origin: Holstein, Germany -1918
Pound Sweet – Origin: Connecticut – 1834
Harvey — Origin: Old English Culinary apple – 1629
Greensleeves - Origin: Kent, England – 1966
Holly — Origin: Ohio Agricultural Research Center Intorduced 1970
Karmijan De Sonnaville -Origin: Netherlands -1950s
Mother –Origin: Boston, Massachusetts -1844
Twenty Ounce — Origin: Upstate New York, U.S.A. – 1840
Peasgood Nonsuch — Origin: Lincolnshire,England – 1855
Cinnamon Spice –Origin: Bolinas-Olema Valley, California – 1980s
Irish Peach — Origin: Eire, Ireland 1820
Wolf River –Origin-Banks of the Wolf River, Fremont, Wisconsin -1856
Summer gold
Apple 172
Yellow Belliflower – Origin: Burlington, New Jersey – in the early 1800′s
Nutmeg Pippin
Zabergau Reinette – Origin: Zaber River in Wurttemberg, Germany   1885
Adam’s Pearmain — England — 1826
#138
Victoria Sweet
Coo River Beauty — Origin: Coos River, Oregon
#295
Alaska Pink
Kidd’s Orange Red - Origin: New Zealand – 1924
Golden Nugget — Origin: Novia Scotia -1932/1949

47 varieties .
We will be there watching the balloons in the morning.
Tim and Cindy don’t usually agree on a favorite for the week.
But this week they both love the Holstein. It is an apple dating back to
1918 from Hamburg, Germany and it has a pineapple flavor.
Also many people have been requesting the pink fleshed apples.
We will have 2 different varieties there, Mott Pink and Pink Pearmain.
Both pink in the middle.

Elstar
Nova Mac
Ramsdell Sweet
Victoria Sweet
Wolf River
Kidds Orange Red
Barry
Burgundy
Greensleeves
Mott Pink
Karmijan De Sonnaville
Kindil Sinap
Coos River Beauty
Cinnamon Spice
Holstein
Horneburger Pfannkecken
Mini Jon
Pepin Litowska
Trinitarian
Harvey
Gala
Gravenstein
Summer Champion
Twenty Ounce
Pink Pearmain
Palouse
Early Northern Spy
Priscilla
Luke
Sweet Delicious
Walter’s
Sweet Sixteen
Ginger Gold
Alexander
McIntosh
New York 75414-1
Bella De Jardens
Idamac
Golden Nugget
Peasgood Nonsuch
Mollies Delicious
Porter
Spy Graham
Jefferies
Monarch
Shay
Our very own “91”

Apples we will have at the Market tomorrow!
Luke
Wedge
Priestly
Summer Champion
Mollies Delicious
Walters
Porters - Originated on the farm of Reverend Samuel Porter, Sherborn, MA,                        about 1800 this all-purpose apple is particularly good as a dessert                        fruit: juicy,  crisp and tart

Sweet King
Early Northern Spy (cooks like the later spy, but shorter storage)
GDWF-1
Jefferies
Sweet 16
Palouse – Our Favorite
Peasgood Nonsuch – (very old (1858) large cooking apple)
Spy Graham
Priscilla
Washington Strawberry
Orenco
Alexander (parent of Wolf River)
N C Pear Apple
Gala
Honey Crisp
Ginger Gold
McIntosh
Barry
Gravenstein

Concerning the apple tours we previously posted on the Eastman’s Antique Blog and web site:
Due to over-cropping of the apples we have experienced unusual breakage of
branches, and droppings of thousands of apples. This has made our orchard unsafe to
have people walking through. It is even hard for us, as we are picking, because it is like walking on marbles. As the season progresses, we expect this situation to get worse.
So because of these unforeseen circumstances the tours for this year have been cancelled.
We will still be at the Midland Farm markets on Saturday and Wednesday mornings, with
many varieties of the apples. Sorry to those who have already shown interest in our tours.

Eastman’s Antique Apples