{"id":1118,"date":"2014-11-04T19:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2014-11-04T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T00:53:55","slug":"finding-mcintosh-autonomy-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Finding McIntosh | Autonomy Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autonomyacres.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/03\/finding-mcintosh\/\">Finding McIntosh | Autonomy Acres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 0px;\">A reoccuring theme here on Autonomy Acres is food, a lot of the time specifically about fruit. \u00a0Fruit trees, fruit shrubs, growing and foraging fruit, and eating fruit have all been topics covered here over the last four years. \u00a0Its a favorite subject of mine for good reason, I love fruit! \u00a0Growing it, eating it, learning about it, cooking with it, \u00a0you name it, fruit is one of my passions. \u00a0Especially apples!<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 0px;\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><\/strong><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 0px;\">Nothing compares to a tree ripened apple on a cool autumn day. \u00a0They signal the finished accumulation of solar energy, the life of the soil, and the water from rain into a near perfect orb that holds the sweetness of summer within its flesh. \u00a0They are the inspiration for poetry and legends, and for so many years have played a part in the stories and traditions of cultures from around the cool, temperate climates of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 0px;\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><\/strong><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 0px;\">It wasn\u2019t that long ago when every region in the world where apples could and did grow had its own locally adapted varieties. \u00a0Many of these varieties were used solely for culinary uses or cider and were rarely eaten out of hand and remained nameless, wild apple trees living on the edges of forests and in the hedgerows between fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 0px;\"><b>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding McIntosh | Autonomy Acres. A reoccuring theme here on Autonomy Acres is food, a lot of the time specifically about fruit. \u00a0Fruit trees, fruit shrubs, growing and foraging fruit, and eating fruit have all been topics covered here over the last four years. \u00a0Its a favorite subject of mine for good reason, I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30,319,650,767],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-apples","tag-food","tag-prepping","tag-survival-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}