TIL over a 25-year period, a man named Tom Brown found & reclaimed about 1,200 "lost" apple varieties. His two-acre orchard, Heritage Apples, contains 700 of the rarest ones. Most of them haven’t been sold commercially for over a century and some were cloned from the last known trees of their kind.

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Meet the Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1,000 'Lost' Varieties

Tom Brown's retirement hobby is a godsend for chefs, conservationists, and cider.

^{Eric J. Wallace (Atlas Obscura)}