Nutting Bumpuses. Northern Spy. Newt Grindles. These are just a few of the unique names given to a variety of rare, heirloom apples found on John Bunker's Super Chilly Farm in Palermo, Maine.
If you're from New England, chances are you had a family member or two that would send a box of Florida oranges and grapefruit north in the dead of winter — a reminder that the sunny South has a year-round supply of the fruit ripe for the picking. Here, it's the other way around. While grocery stores and farmers markets across New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts are inundated with apples of all kinds, we in South Florida are stuck with bags of boring, mushy McIntosh or over-ripe Red Delicious.
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