81 year old homie splitting oak. He lives a low stress lifestyle and has probably hiked almost every week for most of his life. #Splittingmaul #RealMen #SplittingWood #WoodSplitting #Firewood #Homesteading #Prepping

Wickson x rubaiyat apple cross. By under educated guess is that this one will be very sweet with some wax and like flavor. Hopefully it will have summer for a Biot‘s red flash, but I’m starting to doubt that will be the case. if it doesn’t write at least good, I will be surprised. The more I look at it the more Wixon ask it looks. #Apples #appletrees #applefruit #growingfruittrees #SeedlingApples #AppleRenaissance #AppleBreeding #PlantBreeding #Orchard #HomeOrchard #OrchardLife #Gardening #OrganicGardening #GrowingFood #AppleVarieties #NewAppleVarieties #homesteadlife #gardeners #gardener #orchards #GardenLife #homesteadinglife

Two potentially very interesting crosses between grenadine and golden russet. Both are showing red flesh developing beneath the translucent yellow skin, which is exactly how it happens with grenadine. The goal ideally would to be to retain the red flesh and special berry flavor of grenadine, with both the high sugar and supremely excellent and complex flavor of golden russet. It seems like a bit much to ask for, but these two look fairly Russety and they are definitely going to have red flesh, so fingers crossed. This Apple will not be ripe until November in all likelihood. #apples #AppleBreeding #HomeOrchard #OrchardLife #Orchard #AppleTrees #AppleseedWings #AppleRenaissance #AppleSeedlings #Gardening #OrganicGardening #GardeningLife #PlantBreeding #Homesteading #Fruit #Foodie #FruitBreeding #Agriculture #Horticulture

A new seedling apple, cross between Wickson and grenadine. #AppleBreeding #Apples #ApplesFromSeed #SeedlingApples #GrowingApples #AppleRenaissance #NewApples #AppleVarieties #GrowingApples #HomeOrchard #OrchardLife #Orchard #AppleTree #wicksonapple #GrenadineApple#Homesteading #Gardening #OrganicGardening #GardenLife

This morning’s YouTube video, tasting 18 apples, including 4 seedling apples from my breeding efforts. It’s a mixed lot with a couple of stars, one of which is my seedling BITE ME! That’s pretty cool

Sweet 16 with six cells and 12 seeds instead of the usual five cells and 10 seeds. This one is crossed with Rubaiyat, red fleshed apple. Seeds for sale this winter, but in very limited quantities. #appleseason #apples #applebreeding #plantbreeding #applerenaissance #sweet16apple #rubaiyat #orchard #orchardlife #gardening #fruittrees #growingfruit #appleseedling #growingapples #growingapplesfromseed

The Gold Cup Oak aka Canyon Live Oak, and Maul oakQuercus chrysolepis. Grows mostly in interior Northern California. Highly variable in form such as leaf shape and size, acorn shape and size and growth of twigs. Many grow in a cool weeping form. It is one of our largest oaks, but not as big as the Valley Whites. I haven’t processed the acorns, but I’m sure they are edible. I don’t hear people talk about eating this species that I can recall, but there are a lot of speices to choose from wherever it grows. I have used the acorn caps for dyeing buckskin. It makes a nice yellowish buff color. The caps have been assessed for tannin content, but I cannot find the reference for the life of me. I think they have great potential as a tanning material where the trees are abundant, the large, thick corky caps sometimes blanket the ground in fall. The also seem to give up their tannin pretty easily in cooking, without crushing first, though it’s had to be sure without testing. I’m sure the bark can be used to tan as well, but I haven’t tried it. The wood is very heavy and tough and sources claim it was used for stuff like tool handles and wagon axles and of course Mauls after one of it’s names, Maul Oak. I used it for my last maul and it is very well suited, being dense and durable. I have not had a chance to use it as a tool handle yet. It is supposedly susceptible to sudden oak death, but not nearly as badly affected as tan oak. #oaks #californiaplants #california #californiaflora #acorns #quercus #quercuscrysolepis #usefulplants #survival #wildcrafting #tanning #leather #tanninghides #hometanning #buckskin #braintannedbuckskin

The Golden Harvey. I just posted a blog entry of an epic amount of research on this apple from 19th century books. By all accounts, it tastes amazing, keeps until spring and is super sweet with a specific gravity of 1085, which is over 20% sugar. skillcult.com/blog #apples #goldenharveyapple #heirloomapples #heirloomfruit #fruit #homeorchard #orchardlife #grafting #applerenaissance #russetapple #russets

Zabergau Reinette, Origin Germany from seeds planted in 1885. These I picked a little early, hoping they will improve in storage. It’s on the tart side by all accounts, including mine. So far worth having around, but not amazing in the flavor department and could have more sugar for my taste. Probably great for cooking. #zabergaureinette #russetapple #homeorchard #appleuprising #applerenaissance #apples #fruit #orchard #orchardlife #Growingfruit #gardening #organicgardening #selfreliance

Apple tasting from my last video. top to bottom, my new wickson seedling, Mother, St. Edmund’s Russet, Sunrise and what is supposed to be Skinner’s Seedling, but I’m wondering if it’s mislabeled now. #appleuprising #applerenaissance #apples #fruit #homeorchard #orchard #orchardlife #Growingfruit #skinnersseedling #motherapplevariety #saintedmundspippinapple #sunriseapple #gardening #organicgardening #selfreliance

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