Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Meyer, the founder of Johnny Appleseed Organic, first found out about one of the last known Appleseed trees in the 1990s when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's never been a better time to eat — and cook with — American apple varieties. Frans Rombout / PicturePartners / Getty Images ...

VOLUNTEERS ARE TAKING UP THE CAUSE. ONE AUTHOR DID A STUDY THAT DETERMINED THAT 42% OF AMERICANS DON’T BELIEVE THAT JOHN CHAPMAN OR JOHNNY APPLESEED WAS A REAL PERSON, BUT HE WAS REAL. 250 YEARS AFTER ...

Jonathan Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on Sept. 26, 1774. By 1797, the year Zanesville was founded, he was planting what we believe to be his first ...

The story goes that he had a pouch of apple seeds and walked around the Ohio Valley planting seeds wherever he could. He planted and sold apple seeds in forests, along streams, and by the roads. The ...

LANCASTER — Local folk hero and tree aficionado John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed, turned 245 years old on Thursday, and the Johnny Appleseed Visitors’ Center on Route 2 was sure to mark ...

Volunteers in the 1980s put together an apple appetizer cookbook that was sold during that year’s festival. Photo courtesy of Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District LIMA — Between 6,000 to 8,000 ...

For the past two years, the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana and American Forests, the United States’ oldest nonprofit conservation organization, have teamed up to plant apple trees. The trees have ...

Apples and October seem to go together. Most old farmsteads had an apple orchard. Our home farm had two orchards. One was near the house and had summer apple trees, a Wealthy apple tree and a white ...

Each fall, thousands flock to their nearest apple orchard for autumn’s bounty, and stories surface about adopted Hoosier, Johnny Appleseed, the “patron saint” of apples. Appleseed was a barefoot ...

DANVILLE -- Kindergarten students at the Mahoning-Cooper Elementary School recently observed Johnny Appleseed's birthday by creating apple projects. While wearing paper headbands decorated with apples ...