Leaves of Gold Press launches a brand new series for gardeners, backyard farmers, historians, cooks and home-brewers: Rare and Heritage Fruit – now available in in large format paperback throughout the world.
‘Heritage’ or ‘heirloom’ fruits such as old-fashioned varieties of apple, quince, fig, plum, peach and pear are increasingly popular due to their diverse flavours, excellent nutritional qualities and other desirable characteristics. They are part of our horticultural, vintage and culinary inheritance. To pick a tree-ripened heritage fruit from your own back yard and bite into it is to experience the taste of fresh food as our forefathers knew it.
During the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fruit diversity was huge, but in modern supermarkets only a limited range of commercial fruit varieties is now available to consumers.
Heritage, heirloom and rare fruit enthusiasts across the world are currently reviving our horticultural legacy by renovating old orchards and identifying ‘lost’, unusual and historic fruit varieties. The goal is to make a much wider range of fruit trees available again to the home gardener.
This series of handbooks aims to help.
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 1: Cultivars
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 2: Growing
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 3: Preserving
The first titles have arrived:
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 1: Cultivars #6 PERRY PEARS
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 1: Cultivars #8 PEACHES
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 1: Cultivars #3 CIDER APPLES
Rare and Heritage Fruit Set 1: Growing #1 PROPAGATING FRUIT PLANTS
