Popular mythconceptions

[Jim Nelson]

Out here in sunny So. Cal. we have Anna apples. They are a hybrid cross between a red delicious and some sort of Israeli lab rat. I'm told they were developed in Israel for warm climates. Ours produce twice a year,June and Dec., with the June crop being by far the better crop.

They are pretty good eaten fresh but really shine as a pie or sauce apple.One of our neighbors makes apple butter with them and it is great.

 

[Wagtail]

It's just a language/marketing thing...here in the US they use the term "aged" rather than "mature"...

I have a wedge of 'sharp & crumbly' cheddar waiting in my fridge... it's from the Pyengana Cheese Factory and has been aged 24 months.

Vacuumed sealed, so it can wait for a special occasion.

 

[Jim Shooz]

They may do things differently down under, but we store a lot of apples at work (hundreds of thousands of bushels, all for other people) and very few are kept past 9 months. Aaron Z

Down here Apples and Kiwifruit are stored in coolstores at 1 or 2º in carbon dioxide. They are shipped in containers in the same atmosphere to the northern hemisphere to arrive fresh and just in time for your winter.

 

[Doofy]

They are growing apples in Anchorage and have begun using them in craft beers. Tasty!

 

[the old grind]

I heard that in The Netherlands ~80% of produce is grown 'hi-tech, indoors'. IMO, it'll be for efficiency as well as to conserve water that this will be the future of 'table-fare' agriculture, as it can (over time) be implemented where traditional farming has suffered form global seasonal & climate variations, barren soil, and local weather disasters.

(btw, "GW'" is real, .. we humans are not the only factor, .. we might slow down the rate of it, but not soon, .. we cannot reverse it until after we've finished 'rebounding' from the last ice age! We need to prepare, not 'prove', OK?)

IMO, we stand to gain 'quality of product' and what industry teaches us can help us preserve heirloom fruits & veggies, if/when we try it too.

btw, the absolute 'out of left field', but entirely believable thing I just heard from the scientific world, (and that experts agree) is that half of humans ever born were likely killed by mosquito-borne illnesses. It's being debated which 'Crispr' mods (genome editing) is the best way to modify the specie. (sterile males, infertile females, etc)

There is a concept' labelled 'solutionism' by some. It's an idea that someone sitting at a computer will come up with an answer to any & every problem. (and deserve $$$$ for it ) I've been told that incredible secrets (.. that would make Atlantians jealous) are all over the internet, but too few know they're out there for all to see.

 

[dragoneggs]

(btw, "GW'" is real, .. we humans are not the only factor, .. we might slow down the rate of it, but not soon, .. we cannot reverse it until after we've finished 'rebounding' from the last ice age! We need to prepare, not 'prove', OK?)

TOG, I do like your perspective on prepare vs. prove. Personally, I don't think we humans know where the planet is in terms of warming/cooling in larger cycles than looking at the last 150 years and claiming 'we' are the problem.

GW/GC... definitely a myth conception.

 

[tjkubota93]

TOG, I do like your perspective on prepare vs. prove. Personally, I don't think we humans know where the planet is in terms of warming/cooling in larger cycles than looking at the last 150 years and claiming 'we' are the problem.

GW/GC... definitely a myth conception.

Hopefully he is right about making infertile mosquitoes.

If mosquitoes were wiped out, would desirable species be hurt? Would fish or birds run out of food?

 

[Jstpssng]

Hopefully he is right about making infertile mosquitoes.

If mosquitoes were wiped out, would desirable species be hurt? Would fish or birds run out of food?

that was my first thought, also.

 

[Diggin It]

When I see Mosquito larva in some standing water, scoop them out and drop them in my gold fish pond, the fish attack them like Piranha. No myth there.

 

[Diggin It]

Then again, there are those 'humans' who feel we don't need creepy things like birds and bats and whatever else poops on our fancy, shiny cars, so if they get wiped out too, so much the better. No myth there either.