Prairie Fare: Apples are one of nature’s original convenience foods

Many of the fruit’s health-promoting phytochemicals are located right underneath its skin.

I recall my neighbor’s prolific apple tree that we would help harvest every fall. It was a very tall tree, so harvesting apples required a ladder.

I guess no one ever pruned the tree.

Maybe it just seemed enormous because I was small back then.

We enjoyed apple pie, apple crisp, apple jelly and applesauce made f…