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Apples
There is nothing quite as good as eating your own farm fresh apples. Whether
you are looking of picked or upick (u-pick) apples consider the list of
farms at the bottom of this page.
APPLES REALLY ARE GOOD FOR YOU!
Eating fresh apples is always good for you, but to get the full nutritional
benefits associated with eating apples you should eat at least one fresh
apple every day. The average U.S. consumer eats about 19 pounds of fresh
apples a year — about one apple per week.
Apple
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Apple trivia
- Apples come in all shades of reds, greens, yellows.
- Two pounds of apples make one 9-inch pie.
- Apple blossom is the state flower of Michigan.
- 2500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States.
- 7500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
- 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in the United States.
- Apples are grown commercially in 36 states.
- Apples are grown in all 50 states.
- United States consumers eat an average of 45.5 pounds of apples. That's
a lot of applesauce!
- 61 percent of United States apples are eaten as fresh fruit.
- 39 percent of apples are processed into apple products; 21 percent
of this is for juice and cider.
- The top apple producing states are Washington, New York, Michigan,
California, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which will produce over 83 percent
of the nation’s 2001-crop apple supply.
- Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
- A medium apples is about 80 calories.
- Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five
grams of fiber.
- In 1997 there were 9,000 apple growers with orchards covering 453,200
acres.
- The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts
Bay Colony.
- The science of apple growing is called pomology.
- Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.
- Most apples are still picked by hand in the fall.
- Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to
as large as a grapefruit.
- Apples are propagated by two methods: grafting or budding.
- The apple variety ‘Delicious' is the most widely grown in the
United States.
- In Europe, France, Italy and Germany are the leading apple producing
countries.
- The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspin and the Black
Sea.
- Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.
- Apples are a member of the rose family.
- Apples harvested from an average tree can fill 20 boxes that weigh
42 pounds each.
- Americans eat 19.6 pounds or about 65 fresh apples every year.
- 25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.
- The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.
- Europeans eat about 46 pounds of apples annually.
- The average size of a United States orchard is 50 acres.
- Many growers use dwarf apple trees.
- Charred apples have been found in prehistoric dwellings in Switzerland.
- Most apple blossoms are pink when they open but gradually fade to
white.
- Some apple trees will grown over forty feet high and live over a hundred
years.
- Most apples can be grown farther north than most other fruits because
they blossom late in spring, minimizing frost damage.
- It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.
- Apples are the second most valuable fruit grown in the United States.
Oranges are first.
- In colonial time apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts the 2000
apple crop to be at 254.2 million 42 pound cartons.
- Total apple production in 1999 was 252 million cartons valued at $1.5
billion.
- The largest U. S. apple crop was 277.3 million cartons in 1998.
- In 1999 the People's Republic of China led the world in apple production
followed by the United States.
- The Lady or Api apple is one of the oldest varieties in existence.
- Newton Pippin apples were the first apples exported from America in
1768, some were sent to Benjamin Franklin in London.
- In 1730 the first apple nursery was opened in Flushing, New York.
- One of George Washington's hobbies was pruning his apple trees.
- America's longest-lived apple tree was reportedly planted in 1647
by Peter Stuyvesant in his Manhattan orchard and was still bearing fruit
when a derailed train struck it in 1866.
- Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they
were refrigerated.
- A peck of apples weight 10.5 pounds.
- A bushel of apples weights about 42 pounds and will yield 20-24 quarts
of applesauce.
- Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples
since lat least 6500 B.C.
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Oregon's Tricounty Farm Information Area
We have farms that serve Apple and Apple products to the following cities within Washington County, Multnomah
County and Clackamas County area:
- Portland, Oregon - Apple
- Beaverton, Oregon - Apple
- Hillsboro, Oregon - Apple
- Clackamas, Oregon - Apple
- Canby, Oregon - Apple
- Oregon City, Oregon - Apple
- Sauvie Island, Oregon - Apple
- Oregon City, Oregon - Apple
- Aurora, Oregon - Apple
- Forest Grove, Oregon - Apple
- Eagle Creek, Oregon - Apple
- Banks, Oregon - Apple
- Newberg, Oregon - Apple
- Wilsonville, Oregon - Apple
- Tigard, Oregon - Apple
- Cornelius, Oregon - Apple
- North Plains, Oregon - Apple
- Milwaukie, Oregon - Apple
- Corbett, Oregon - Apple
- Tualatin, Oregon - Apple
- Sherwood, Oregon - Apple
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