Heritage Apples with Jamie Hanson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach

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Heritage Apples with Jamie Hanson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Nov. 24, 2025

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Show Notes

When I bought my place decades ago it was nestled in a tiny piece of former farmland with a little 1880s house and no garden. There were, however, five giant apple trees, at least a century old even then – all overgrown, but still willing to bear fruit despite their age and years of neglect. I’m very attached to them even though I still don’t know their names … which was why I wanted to talk to today’s guest, Jamie Hanson, the orchard manager for Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa, who knows a thing or two about heritage apples. Seed... Read More ›

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