Web Links
Apples for you
- Applesource This little site does a nice business in exotic apple varieties. You can order 86 different varieties from them! Also included are hints for the home apple grower and some good apple descriptions.
- U.S. Apple Association. Lots of stuff here for consumers, growers, lobbyists...
- Applejournal.com. This is one of the most informative, best-designed apple-based sites I've come across.
How to prune and graft your apple trees
- Pruning Fruit Trees A good and very thorough guide to the art of pruning.
- A grafting and budding class page. This is really for a class at Cornell University, but there is so much information on it that anyone can benefit.
- A Guide to Natural Target Pruning and Landscape Tree Care 101 both contain some simple do's and don'ts for basic tree care.
Supply stores
- FrostProof.com aims to be "the Agricultural Supermarket of the Internet"
- GEMPLER's online. Gemplers is THE catalogue for hard-to-find industrial grade products. They have an excellent horticultural section.
- Seeds of Change specializes in organic gardening. They've also got a neat Classic apple poster and Modern apple poster.
Apple cider issues
You may have heard of E. coli outbreaks that were caused by unpasturized apple cider. Here are two links that address the changes that are taking place in the world of cider. Our apple cider is pasturized; no worries here!- USDA Cider Saftey "What Consumers Need to know About Juice Saftey" - a fact sheet from the government.
- Cider Stuff from VirtualOrchard, a place with many articles and news relating to safe apple cider.
The business of growing apples
- Virtual Orchard Come here if you're curious about how some of the orchard industry works. This site is full of information about sustainable apple production and research issues. There is also a wide selection of links to other pages.
- Good Fruit Grower Magazine The online extension of the popular magazine.
- Facts for Fancy Fruit is a newsletter put out by the Indiana Horticultural Society. Get the lowdown on the Indiana apple business!
- Pest Management at the Crossroads This page is an excellent jumping-off point to learn more about Integrated Pest Management, or IPM.
- The USApple Association is the national trade association for the US apple industry.
Chickens
- Purdue's poultry page.
- The "Incubators in the Classroom" project
- The ChickZone
This page last updated on Saturday, October 09, 2004