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# 4.8-star rating from 205 reviews Sustainable, chemical-free orchard methods Comprehensive organic apple growing guide The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist

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## Summary

> 🍏 Grow Green, Grow Smart — Your Organic Orchard Awaits!

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- **What is this?** The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist
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## Key Features

- • **Engaging & Practical:** Written like a novel with real-life orchard stories, making learning enjoyable and memorable.
- • **Unlock Timeless Wisdom:** Blend traditional farming insights with modern organic techniques for lasting success.
- • **Master Organic Orchardry:** From site selection to harvest, every step demystified for the eco-conscious grower.
- • **Trusted by the Community:** Highly rated and recommended by both backyard enthusiasts and professional orchardists alike.
- • **Sustainability at Its Core:** Embrace chemical-free, planet-friendly practices that honor nature’s balance.

## Overview

The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist by Michael Phillips is a highly rated, comprehensive manual that covers every aspect of organic apple cultivation. From planning and site selection to harvest, it combines practical advice with engaging storytelling. Perfect for both hobbyists and professional orchard owners, this guide champions sustainable, chemical-free farming methods to ensure long-term environmental health.

## Description

For decades fruit growers have sprayed their trees with toxic chemicals in an attempt to control a range of insect and fungal pests. Yet it is possible to grow apples responsibly, by applying the intuitive knowledge of our great-grandparents with the fruits of modern scientific research and innovation. Since The Apple Grower first appeared in 1998, orchardist Michael Phillips has continued his research with apples, which have been called “organic’s final frontier.” In this new edition of his widely acclaimed work, Phillips delves even deeper into the mysteries of growing good fruit with minimal inputs. Some of the cutting-edge topics he explores include: The use of kaolin clay as an effective strategy against curculio and borers, as well as its limitations Creating a diverse, healthy orchard ecosystem through understory management of plants, nutrients, and beneficial microorganisms How to make a small apple business viable by focusing on heritage and regional varieties, value-added products, and the “community orchard” model The author’s personal voice and clear-eyed advice have already made The Apple Grower a classic among small-scale growers and home orchardists. In fact, anyone serious about succeeding with apples needs to have this updated edition on their bookshelf.

Review: You had me at organic!!! - I highly recommend the book to everyone from the back yard grower to the full blown orchard owner. The book is very comprehensive look at every aspect of growing apples (and fruit in general) from the planning stage pre-planting and choosing a site to harvest and beyond. I also think the book was well written to read more like a novel, with some background story gleaned from his own life and experience on his orchard. This made the book read better than a boring technical cooperative extension paper, which of course anyone can "Google" online. The only area I feel that went a little too far was some of the holistic approaches. Although, when reading about the holistic idea's, I cannot help but think of my eccentric aunt who used to talk to the tree's and thank them for their bounty. You could not pick anything in her garden, without thanking them for their fruit and she used to talk to her tree's like they were her children, but let me tell you, her tree's produced well, so who's to say different? I love the organic approach, and I feel that the farmers back in the day were doing it right, before agribusiness and chemical farming came into use, the organic way is truly the only long term sustainable way we can survive on this planet in the long run. I only hope that we do not poison our planet beyond repair and are able to change our methods, before it is too late. Good reading.
Review: Fabulous Resource! - I LOVE this book. I'm particularly impressed with the density of information: too many hobby farm/small farm books take a once-over-lightly approach, but this one is deep on detail. I also appreciate the discussion of seedling trees: typically I've seen them ignored or dismissed as irrelevant. The discussion of root stock is a help too; before this I've seen it only discussed in terms of it's limiting factor on size, but this also introduces issues of hardiness and climate appropriateness. The book is incredibly thorough while reminding the reader that there are no "cook books" to growing organic orchards, it's still an art and science that is being developed. I spent the first few years of my life on an old-fashioned orchard and have never recovered. Now, after 30 big-city, corporate years the world is circling back to the kind of orchard I've always longed to have, and this book is filled with invaluable information on how to proceed. Next year I'm headed back to the country, this book in hand, to make a home and create a backyard cider orchard. I know it's hard work and the best of it may happen after I'm gone, but this book gives me the courage to begin and information to guide me as I figure it out. I hope within 5 - 10 years I'll be toasting the author with my own apple cider!

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #82,672 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #16 in Fruit Gardening #28 in Agriculture Industry (Books) #80 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 210 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You had me at organic!!!
*by B***N on May 6, 2011*

I highly recommend the book to everyone from the back yard grower to the full blown orchard owner. The book is very comprehensive look at every aspect of growing apples (and fruit in general) from the planning stage pre-planting and choosing a site to harvest and beyond. I also think the book was well written to read more like a novel, with some background story gleaned from his own life and experience on his orchard. This made the book read better than a boring technical cooperative extension paper, which of course anyone can "Google" online. The only area I feel that went a little too far was some of the holistic approaches. Although, when reading about the holistic idea's, I cannot help but think of my eccentric aunt who used to talk to the tree's and thank them for their bounty. You could not pick anything in her garden, without thanking them for their fruit and she used to talk to her tree's like they were her children, but let me tell you, her tree's produced well, so who's to say different? I love the organic approach, and I feel that the farmers back in the day were doing it right, before agribusiness and chemical farming came into use, the organic way is truly the only long term sustainable way we can survive on this planet in the long run. I only hope that we do not poison our planet beyond repair and are able to change our methods, before it is too late. Good reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fabulous Resource!
*by A***A on January 26, 2008*

I LOVE this book. I'm particularly impressed with the density of information: too many hobby farm/small farm books take a once-over-lightly approach, but this one is deep on detail. I also appreciate the discussion of seedling trees: typically I've seen them ignored or dismissed as irrelevant. The discussion of root stock is a help too; before this I've seen it only discussed in terms of it's limiting factor on size, but this also introduces issues of hardiness and climate appropriateness. The book is incredibly thorough while reminding the reader that there are no "cook books" to growing organic orchards, it's still an art and science that is being developed. I spent the first few years of my life on an old-fashioned orchard and have never recovered. Now, after 30 big-city, corporate years the world is circling back to the kind of orchard I've always longed to have, and this book is filled with invaluable information on how to proceed. Next year I'm headed back to the country, this book in hand, to make a home and create a backyard cider orchard. I know it's hard work and the best of it may happen after I'm gone, but this book gives me the courage to begin and information to guide me as I figure it out. I hope within 5 - 10 years I'll be toasting the author with my own apple cider!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Full of value
*by P***A on April 23, 2025*

Just what my son needed. Very well written and covered everything he needs.

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