“The Lost Apple Project rules. Here’s the gist: David Benscoter and EJ Brandt, a Vietnam veteran and a retired FBI agent, are amateur botanists. They love apples. Specifically, they love old species of apples that are thought to be extinct. The two men traipse around the Pacific Northwest and find decrepit apple trees in hopes of finding and documenting old apple breeds. This fall, the Lost Apple Project knocked its fruit-sleuthing mission out of the park, rediscovering ten apple species that experts thought no longer existed. Ten! Way to go, my dudes.”
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