British apple boom brings back hundreds of forgotten varieties

As events across the UK celebrate Apple Day this weekend, we talk to the growers preserving the country’s ‘lost’ harvestBritain is enjoying a remarkable apple boom, as hundreds of new community orchards revive lost varieties and contribute to a thriving heritage market.According to Steve Oram, who is the apple diversity officer at the wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species: “We are adding new orchards to the register all the time. Some are in allotme