Apple Savior
NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling profiles apple tree cultivator Carlos Manning of West Virginia. Mister Manning’s passion is finding old varieties of apple trees in abandoned orchards and grafting them on to existing apple trees, thereby saving the species.
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