Heirloom Apple Varieties
Frost Crab
(aka Robert Frost Crab)
So the story has been told that these dusky shouldered ruby crabapples are the muse to the one and only Robert Frost. Supposedly originating from the very crabapple tree that grew on the famous poet's Shaftsbury, VT, property and sat in his landscape while he wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. Especially precious and treasured now as their mother tree fell victim to Hurricane Irene in 2011. Fortunately, there were cuttings taken and new descendants are growing here at Scott Farm as well as an orchard surrounding Frost's Stone House. Their flavor is as classically tart and crabapple puckering as Robert Frost is to poetry. Imagine the tales they could tell. Harvest early September.
