Interview with Nathan Dee Greene

Interview with Nathan Dee Greene

Agriculture

Apples

Apples -- Grafting

Apples -- Preservation

Food -- Preservation

Greene, Nathan Dee, 1918-2011

Orchards

Nathan Dee Greene of Bryson City shares his memories of picking apples with his family at an orchard on Laurel Branch in the 1930s, and some of the varieties grown in the orchard. He talks about some of the equipment used by the orchard and discusses how his family used and preserved the apples, including drying and making cider, and he indicates that canning apples was not done frequently. He also talks about how his mother bleached apples, which involved packing apples in sulfur for preservation. His wife grafted many trees, and he talks about her work with grafting. His family had a small orchard that produced many kinds of apple throughout the year, and he shares how his mother and wife used those apples and he recounts how the apples that fell off the trees were used to feed pigs. He also talks about how his wife used crabapples and he closes the interview by discussing some of his favorite apples. The interview was part of a project--Heritage Apples--undertaken by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University.

Greene, Nathan Dee, 1918-2011

WCU Mountain Heritage Center Oral Histories

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1930s;

2004-03-10

Somers, Nathan

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2015-05-22

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Swain County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

20:56 (sound recording)(duration)

5 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina