#sad that my farm job is over and done forever 😢

[tomatoluvr69]

The thing about apples that makes me feel so crazy is that they’re such a living entity…what I mean by this is that with so many fruits and vegetables you’re able to save seeds theoretically indefinitely, obviously not til the end of time but for thousands of years. But with apple varieties, because they don’t grow true to seed (meaning that planting 1000 apple seeds from the same tree will yield you 1000 different results, perhaps only a few of them pleasant to eat) you must graft a scion (a branch off a grown tree in the desired variety) to get the type of apple you want. Which means for there to be, say, Granny Smith apples, there must be a living breathing Granny Smith tree alive from which to take a branch…seeds will do nothing. It’s just such a profoundly impermanent situation and there’s something poetic there for me