Apples in August: Red Delicious

It's August and that means it's time for a woven image series! This year I decided to create portraits of produce instead of people. In 2015 I featured Authors in August and in 2016 I concentrated on Angles in August.

According to Specialty Produce, "the Red Delicious apple was discovered as a chance seedling in 1872 on the Iowa farm of Jesse Hiatt. He marketed it under the name Hawkeye and eventually sold the rights to a fruit company known as Stark Brothers. The apple was first renamed Delicious and later on when Stark Brothers discovered another apple and named it Golden Delicious they renamed the Delicious, Red Delicious. 

The Red Delicious apple saw tremendous commercial success between 1940 till the late 1980’s, with the bulk of the supply coming out of Washington State. Its popularity has declined slightly the past twenty years as consumer interest has swayed to new varieties as well as towards a renewed interest in heirloom apples."

Julie Green
August 5, 2017