National Johnny Appleseed Day - March 11th

[GAlady]

 

[GAlady]

 

[Aunt Bea]

Thanks, Johnny!

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[RadishRose]

Chapman was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts,[3] the second child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chapman (née Simonds, married February 8, 1770). His birthplace has a granite marker, and the street is now called Johnny Appleseed Lane.​

 

[Meanderer]

"Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple,
But only God can count the number of apples in a seed."
Robert H. Schuller

5 Church Planting Lessons From Johnny Appleseed

 

[Meanderer]

There's an old saying among landscapers: "When is the best time to plant a tree? Ten years ago."

"As anyone who's ever planted a seedling -- and hoped to live long enough to sit under its shade -- knows, trees take a long time to grow and mature. It's a lesson folk hero Johnny Appleseed knew well, as he spent 50 years traveling across the northeastern and midwestern United States planting apple tree seedlings ahead of pioneers who would settle the land."

"Even though most fruit trees have a life span of only 15 to 45 years, there is a last-known survivor of Johnny Appleseed's reign. This ancient apple tree lives on a farm in Nova, Ohio, where Johnny Appleseed is believed to have planted an entire orchard of Rambo apple trees in 1830, and indeed still produces fruit [source: American Forests]."

"The tree's seeds and cuttings have been used to propagate hundreds of new "Johnny Appleseed" trees throughout the years, making it one of the nation's most valuable heritage plants. In fact, the Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum in Urbana, Ohio, transplanted seedlings from this lone survivor in honor of Appleseed's contributions to agriculture [source: Urbana]."