Growing spectacular apples takes years of careful planning. This week our growers at Champlain Orchards are ordering trees that they’ll plant two years from now, and that will bear fruit for the first time five years after that.

The trees are custom-grown at Adams County Nursery in Adams County, Pennsylvania, an important fruit-growing region for more than 100 years. When the two-year-old trees arrive at Champlain, they’re just six feet tall including the rootstock. (Each tree has been bred by grafting a cutting onto a particular rootstock selected by our growers, which dictates the size of the tree and proper growing conditions.) Once the trees are in the ground, it’s a five-year wait for fruit. All of this adds up to a seven-year planning cycle. For such great-tasting apples, well worth the wait.

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