Genetic testing is helping identify older varieties of Maine apples, and may promise more delicious, more diverse fruit in our future.
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Maine Apple Camp comes to West Gardiner for the first time
The biennial event wrapped up its third iteration on Sunday, and lasted for three days.
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PHOTOS: ‘Very good’ apple harvest in Buckfield
Cooper Farms shipping apples as far as Florida.
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A few bad apples don’t spoil New England’s crop
HIRAM (AP) — There have been a few bad apples, but New England’s crop of its signature fall fruit is only slightly behind last year’s. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted earlier this year the six-state region’s apple production would be in line with a typical year. That prediction appears close to the target, as […]
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Turner's Ricker Hill Orchards grows, presses on
Apples. Hard cider. Weddings. Wine. Hustle. Hope. Debt. It’s all in the mix for the eighth-generation orchard as it looks to generation nine and the future. TURNER — The new, bright-red Bucher apple press sticks out in the old barn that is the center of Ricker Hill Orchards’ cider operation, a high-tech giant half the […]
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Best apple crop in memory
Phyllis Benoit, right, and her mother, Rita Benoit, finish picking apples at Stukas Orchards in Lewiston on Monday. The Benoits picked Cortland apples for the apple sauce and pies that they plan to make. Farm owner Richard Stukas said that this has been the best apple crop that he can remember. He said that he […]
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Apple crop weathers dry spell and squirrel surge
Even lifelong apple harvesters at The Apple Farm in Fairfield were surprised this year by something they had never seen before at their orchards: small bites on the fruit and scratch marks on the trees. Squirrels have been racing humans to enjoy this year’s crisp apples first. The only way to combat the problem? “Pray […]
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Take your pick: Today is Maine Apple Sunday
Norman Samuels picks Ginger Gold apples for Ricker Hill Orchards on Perkins Ridge Road in Auburn on a recent morning. Ricker is one of the orchards participating in Maine Apple Sunday today. Today is Maine Apple Sunday, an event sponsored by the Maine State Pomological Society with participating orchards around the state. The day coincides […]
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Learning the finer points of apple picking
Jason Morgan picks Ginger Gold apples for Ricker Hill Orchards on Perkins Ridge Road in Auburn on Tuesday morning. He and 10 other first-year workers were learning the ropes from Sam Ricker and 50 other seasoned apple pickers on one of several of the farm’s properties in the area. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Norman Samuels picks Ginger […]
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Elaine Chenard
AUBURN — Elaine Chenard, beloved educator, friend and dear family member, died June 18, 2018, at The Hospice House in Auburn. Elaine was born Oct. 11,1938, to Evariste and Rose Alma (Filteau) Chenard. Her mother died when she was a baby and her father later married Rose Aimee Filteau. “Miss Chenard” spent her entire educational career […]