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Our Local Orchards About City Market, Onion River Co-op City Market, Onion River Co-op is a consumer cooperative, with over 11,000 Members, selling wholesome food and other products while UVM Horticulture Farm building a vibrant, empowered community and South Burlington, VT a healthier world, all in a sustainable manner. Shelburne Orchards Located in downtown Burlington, Vermont, Shelburne, VT City Market provides a large selection of local, Champlain Orchards organic and conventional foods, and thousands Heirloom Shoreham, VT of local and Vermont-made products. Visit City Market, Onion River Co-op online at www.CityMarket.coop or call 802-861-9700.

Dwight Miller & Son Orchards East Dummerston, VT Scott Farm Dummerston, VT

Did you know? • Apples are a member of the rose family. • The earliest archeological evidence of apples as a food crop dates back to 6500 B.C. • The old saying "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away" comes from an old English adage, "To eat an apple before going to bed, “Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.” will make the doctor beg his bread." – Henry David Thoreau • Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free. What’s the best pie apple? How do you find • Apple trees take four to five years to produce the best sweet and crisp eating apple? Get an their first fruit. understanding of the dozens of apple varieties • 25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is City Market sells with this handy brochure why they float. and online apple guide. Online you’ll find a list • Keep cut apples from turning brown by of all the varieties we sell with their best uses, dipping them in a solution of 1 part citrus Your Community-Owned Grocery Store seasonality, flavor profile, and a history of each juice and 3 parts water. 82 South Winooski Avenue type of apple. • Apples give off gases that will speed up the Burlington, VT 05401 ripening of peaches, plums, pears, bananas (802) 861-9700 • www.CityMarket.coop www.citymarket.coop/apples and kiwis. interior interior interior L C R

The History of Apples in America Heirloom Apples Baking with Heirloom Apples “As American as ,” says a common City Market sells over 75 varieties over the Many heirloom apples shine when they are cliché, but apples are not native trees to America! course of the fall season. Each variety has a story used for baking. Zeke Goodband, orchardist at Apples were among the first crops brought to about where it came from and what it tastes like. Scott Farm, claims, “The better the pie apples, North America by European settlers starting in While all of the heirloom varieties can be eaten the less you need a heavy dose of sugar and the early 1600s. fresh, some are better used for baking, drying spices.” While all varieties may be used to make These early settlers depended on apples – and into apple rings, or even making fresh . We an apple pie, crisp, or cake, many expert bakers not just as a source of fresh fruit. Many of the encourage you to try the different varieties over recommend using a combination of varieties to apple trees produced fruit that was unpleasant the season and see what flavors and textures you balance three flavors: for fresh eating so it was used to make cider. most enjoy eating. We provide some guidance • High in tannins (bitter flavors) This cider was then turned to vinegar and information on the shelf signs found on • High in acid (tart flavors) which in turn was used for pickling vegetables. each crate of heirloom apples to help inform • High in sugars (sweet flavors) (brandy made from ) was your choice, but you can always ask a staff used as a preservative for other fruits. person in our Produce Department for a taste of Hamilton Davis, a Burlington baker who has baked extensively with our collection of From these first settlers, we now have an the different varieties! heirloom apples, recommends three parts tannin astounding diversity of apples in America with We also have more information about the apples, two parts very tart apples, and one over 16,000 named varieties. There are more varieties we sell and suggestions for their best part sweet apples to make a perfectly balanced varieties of apples than any other crop grown in uses on our website www.citymarket.coop/apples. apple pie. You might try playing around with the US. Heirloom Apple Terms combinations of the following kinds of apples: With modern agriculture, a handful of varieties have come to dominate the apple market. You’ll see these terms in the names of different Good Tannic Apples: One apple variety – the – now heirloom apples we sell. Dutches of Oldenburg comprises 41% of the entire American apple Kernel – an apple tree grown from a seed (most Bramley’s Seedling crop. One of our local farms, Scott Farm, in apple trees are grafted) Calville d’Hiver Dummerston, VT, continues to grow over 90 Pippin – a “chance” apple that sprouted from a Good Tart Apples: different kinds of apples, helping preserve these random apple seed, or “pip” Ananas Reinette old heirloom varieties with their unique flavors, Russet – apples with a slightly rough greenish- Holstein Orleans Reinette textures and names (ever eaten a D’Arcy Spice, brown or yellowish-brown skin referred to as Hudson’s Golden Gem a Duchess of Oldenburg or a Hubbardston “russetting” Karmijn du Sonneville Nonesuch apple?!). Seedling – an apple tree grown from a seed (synonymous with a Kernel) Tips on Storing Apples Good Sweet Apples: Applesauce Cox’s Orange Pippin Macoun To get the most from your apples always Esopus Spitzenberg McIntosh Applesauce is incredibly easy to make at home. refrigerate them. If you prefer to display your Franc Rambour Reine de Reinette apples in bowl to perfume a Use any apple variety or combination of varieties room, try to eat them within you like – apples with red skins will make pink Mix & Match to Make a Great Pie a few days. applesauce while apples with green or yellow Based on the season and what’s available in the skins (or peeled apples) will make yellow or tan Co-op, mix and match these varieties in an apple applesauce. Applesauce will keep in the fridge pie. Find our recipe online at for several days. Freeze any leftover applesauce http://s.coop/worldsbestapplepie. and it will keep for months! Find a recipe online at http://s.coop/applesauce.