TREE-TORIAL On Sat., Sept. 14 at 1:00 p.m., THE JOHNNY APPLESEED METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT will offer TREE-TORIAL at the MCELROY ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER (2355 Ada Rd., Lima, OH). Get “bark to ...

Given the Sano family's generational expertise, Ingram sought out Tōemon's grandfather, who developed a way to transport the trees successfully so they wouldn't sprout before arriving in Japan.

His real name was John Chapman. It has been said he became famous for planting apple trees throughout Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois during the early 1800’s.

It seems I missed wishing you all a timely happy Johnny Appleseed Day on March 11! This folk figure was indeed a real man named John Chapman who helped nourish a fledgling landscape, one that would… ...

The Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio has the largest collection of memorabilia in the county. The legendary Johnny Appleseed is best known for traveling across the countryside planting ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted trees — did not hinder the efforts of Johnny Appleseed, the popular ...

The poem's simple structure, pulsing cadence and clever thematic imagery ("At seventy-odd/ He was gnarled as could be,/ But ruddy and sound/ As a good apple tree") boost its impact as a read-aloud.

Paul Locher provides a history of how Johnathan “Appleseed” Chapman's orchards became used by Jerome Monroe Smucker to create the J.M. Smucker Co.

In Leominster, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Johnny Appleseed, a study revealed that 42% of Americans believe John Chapman — Johnny Appleseed — was a myth, not a real person.

Johnny Appleseed was an early horticulturist and conservationist, planting apple trees as he traveled west for the settlers that would follow in his wake. (Whitney Locher Illustration) Finally ...

The family packing house was built in 1932 and the cold storage for the apples built 30 years later in 1962. Still, they are moving forward and will be hosting you-pick hours today and throughout ...