Friendly reminder that a lot of Appalachia’s apple planting (think Johnny Appleseed) was actually for booze/other fermented products. I thought it was weird th

Friendly reminder that a lot of Appalachia’s apple planting (think Johnny Appleseed) was actually for booze/other fermented products. I thought it was weird that this article didn’t mention it at all, but upon searching for a source the first article that popped up was also about this man (Tom) & talked about it [0] Probably has to do with the nature of the websites demographic that they exclude it. This reminds me of another person I’m familiar with though, who is preserving hundreds of tomato species - Dan at Rainbow Tomato’s Garden [1] [0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-apples.amp https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-a... [1]https://montco.today/2021/08/rainbow-tomatoes-garden-east-greenville/ https://montco.today/2021/08/rainbow-tomatoes-garden-east-gr...