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Think about how much fruits and vegetables are associated with old times, old-fashioned ways, and, of course, the Ozark hills.
StateoftheOzarks’ Food Growin’ section is established to remember the old days when we actually knew from whence our food came.
The section also focuses on horticulture so that State of the Ozarks may be a place of education, pointing to the future with a foundation well-rooted in the past.
(APPLE, Malus domestica)
Land of the Big Red Apple
In 1897 thirty million Laclede County apples sold for eighteen million dollars.
Ozarks apples won prizes at exhibits and fairs all over the world. At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, they claimed blue ribbons and won for their exhibitors the title, "Apple King of the Ozarks."
The apple king, Absalom Nelson of Lebanon, and many others like him...established huge orchards in the Ozarks, predominately on the upland plateau areas such as that around Lebanon.
— page 77, Rossiter, Phyllis, A Living History of the Ozarks, Pelican Publishing Company Inc., 1992, 2001, 2006.