Spring is the time for planting bare root fruit trees. One of the best ways to get uncommon or heirloom plants is by mail order or online. In this way, I have been able to get together a large variety of apple trees. For the most part, the nurseries I have dealt with have been [...]
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Karl Holzknecht, who was the main missionary at Kaiapit, grew up in Germany. While he embraced the tropical fruit that New Guinea had to offer, he greatly missed the apples of his youth.
Imported apples were fairly scarce in New Guinea in those years. Living at Kaiapit, 80 miles inland from Lae, and being dependent on [...]
When I was around ten years old, we lived in Bavaria, Germany. For a while, it was with my grandparents in Altheim, a little village in Franconia. We lived next door to the Sichlings. They farmed and they also had a dairy.
Most of the residents of Altheim were peasants, but the Sichlings actually owned [...]
Unless we read the story of the Fall of Man in the original Hebrew, we are told that it began with Eve being tempted by an apple. The Hebrew, however, simply identifies the fruit as a fleshy fruit. The apple was part of European culture, not of the Middle East (though some apples may have [...]