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Molly Dorr looks over a huge Wolf River angel that was allotment of an display of abounding varieties of apples during the 2017 Great Maine Angel Day at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association armpit in Unity on Sunday. Staff photo by David Leaming
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UNITY — Abbey Verrier and Laura Sieger like to get in the car and chase for angel copse — decidedly old ones that buck antique bake-apple that they can abundance and bottle for approaching generations.
If they acquisition a timberline beside the alley and they don’t apperceive who owns the acreage it’s on, they will beating on doors until they acquisition the owner.
A archetypal acreage owner’s acknowledgment is that they are acceptable to aces the apples.
“They’ll array of acquaint us that maybe we shouldn’t because maybe they’re not edible,” Verrier said.
Most landowners are friendly, they said.
“Oftentimes, they’ll say ‘yes,’ and they’ll acquaint you area there are six added trees,” Sieger said.
Verrier and Sieger batten Sunday at Great Maine Angel Day captivated at the Common Ground Apprenticeship Centermost and sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Fedco, and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
The accident celebrates the history, acidity and attitude of Maine apples with hands-on kitchen workshops, speakers, angel treats including angel cheddar pizza, angel block and angel duke pies.
It was continuing allowance alone as added than 70 bodies arranged the second-floor library to apprehend Verrier and Sieger allocution about bake-apple exploring in Maine.
Verrier, 27, co-owns “Rocky Ground Cider” in Newburgh area she owns an orchard and produces and sells adamantine cider; Sieger, 24, of Gardiner, works at the Maine Heritage Orchard, a 10-acre canning educational orchard on the MOFGA area that has about 300 varieties of apples and pears commonly developed in Maine. Angel varieties on the armpit are from all 16 Maine counties and date aback to 1630.
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Both Verrier and Sieger are graduates of the College of the Atlantic area they advised animal ecology. Both are associates of MOFGA and both were interns for Palermo citizen John Bunker, a Colby College alum who created Maine Heritage Orchard, started Fedco Copse in 1984 and is columnist of the book, “Not Far From the Tree: A Brief History of the Apples and the Orchards of Palermo, Maine.”
Contrary to what abounding bodies may think, all apples growing in Maine are edible, no amount how they appear, according to Verrier and Sieger, who say apples in the abundance are apparently added baneful than those you acquisition growing by the ancillary of the road. “Every angel timberline is absolutely edible,” Sieger said. “They do not consistently aftertaste good, but they’re absolutely edible.”
Verrier forages for bake-apple to acquisition the best ones for use in authoritative cider, she said. The best cider is fabricated from apples that aftertaste bad and accept tannins and low acidity.
Apples aftertaste best aback you backbone the bake-apple appropriate off the tree, according to Sieger.
Apple copse like to abound at the edges of places — forests, roads, fields — and bounce is a acceptable time to acquisition them, the women said.
“They’re all in blossom in the aforementioned abbreviate window,” Sieger said.
If ones plants a Atramentous Oxford angel seed, the timberline that grows from it will not buck a Atramentous Oxford apple, but the angel ability accept some of the characteristics of a Atramentous Oxford, according to Sieger and Verrier.
“Every berry has the analysis of two parents,” Sieger said. “They may resemble the parents, but they may not.”
People may affix seedlings or saplings by splicing twigs calm to try to get a accurate affectionate of apple.
“You can generally acquaint aback a timberline is grafted because there will be a blister on the tree,” Verrier said.
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Sometimes the women beat for copse with a accumulation of people, they said.
Verrier said it is a admirable acquaintance to see a actual old angel tree, accessible 200 years old, whose amount is addle and its bark, gnarly.
“They can still aftermath bushels and bushels or attractive apples,” she said. “It’s affectionate of a fun attitude to be a allotment of.”
Other than aloof tasting the apple, one of the easiest means to actuate if an angel is accomplished for acrimonious is to cut the angel in bisected and attending at its seeds, according to Verrier. Angel seeds alpha out white and as the angel grows, the seeds get darker until they are a aphotic amber black, she said.
“That’s usually aback they’re ripe,” she said.
There are bags of varieties of apples and about 20 species, according to Sieger.
If one has to draw an angel off the tree, it is not accomplished yet.
“You don’t appetite to draw it — you appetite to lift it off,” Verrier said.
Verrier and Sieger produced an angel that had a axis absorbed to the spur.
“That activation will not aftermath bake-apple the abutting year because it’s broken,” Verrier said.
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She said a Blue Wolf angel is a absolute bake-apple for authoritative cider. It has low acidity, is a little absinthian and a little tannic, but still edible.
After their talk, Gef Flimlin, retired assistant emeritus of Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, said Verrier and Sieger knew their stuff. Flimlin is in the action of affective to Maine, he said.
“I anticipation they had a acceptable butt of the basics we’re attractive for — grafting, basis stocks and begat wood,” he said.
On the aboriginal attic of the MOFGA apprenticeship center, tables were decked out with dozens of varieties, sizes, colors and shapes of apples, abounding of which originated in Maine. They included the Starkey, a large, reddish-pink angel that originated in Vassalboro in 1820; a blooming Washington Candied angel from 1847 Sidney; a anemic Gray Pearmain, dating aback to afore 1860 Fairfield; a baby Red Blaze angel from 1800s Mercer; and a Canadian Strawberry, a blush and chicken angel that originated in Solon above-mentioned to the 1800s.
A army aggregate about an angel tasting table, acid pieces of apples and plopping them in their mouths.
Jennifer Vazconcelo, 22, tasted a tiny blooming and chicken angel alleged a “Brandy.”
“I don’t like that abundant — it was cool sour,” said Vazconcelo, a apprentice at Methodist University in South Carolina who is belief ecology and anatomic management.
Vazconcelo, who said she had appear to the accident with a acquaintance who attends College of the Atlantic, again approved addition angel — a Minnesota 447.
“It was candied and with a little flavor, and chewy, too,” she said, smiling.
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