{"id":53131,"date":"2024-10-15T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=53131"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:43:50","slug":"building-a-noahs-ark-for-southern-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/building-a-noahs-ark-for-southern-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Noah\u2019s Ark for Southern apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of Georgia\u2019s Heritage Apple Orchard, located at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamountain.caes.uga.edu\/\">Georgia Mountain Research &amp; Education Center<\/a> (GMREC) in Blairsville, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/heritage-orchard-to-reclaim-georgias-forgotten-apples\/\">was created in 2021<\/a> to restore and preserve rare and heirloom apple varieties that were once part of a thriving North Georgia apple industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The orchard not only serves as a research hub but also as a public education site, showcasing apple varieties that may offer useful traits such as heat, humidity, and disease resistance. The initiative is especially valuable as the modern apple industry focuses on a limited number of commercially popular varieties, leaving behind many historically significant species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this video, UGA history Professor Stephen Mihm and GMREC Superintendent Ray Covington talk about the purpose of the Heritage Apple Orchard and how Georgia\u2019s lost apples are making a comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Georgia\u2019s Heritage Apple Orchard, located at the Georgia Mountain Research &amp; Education Center (GMREC) in Blairsville, was created in 2021 to restore and preserve rare and heirloom apple varieties that were once part of a thriving North Georgia apple industry. The orchard not only serves as a research hub but also as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/building-a-noahs-ark-for-southern-apples\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building a Noah\u2019s Ark for Southern apples&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":70087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"watch-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"post_medium":[315],"publications":[],"authors":[328],"photographers":[],"video_credit":[890,880],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-53131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","post_medium-watch","authors-michael-terrazas","video_credit-beth-anne-dekeizer","video_credit-david-mitchell","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=53131"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=53131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}