As well as growing fresh apples, Jack Feil grows cider apples, including Hewes Crab, a variety that originated in Virginia around 300 years ago. Jack Feil grows more than 200 different apple varieties at his orchard in East Wenatchee, Washington, but thinks that’s not enough. He wants to grow apples for every taste. His collection includes everything from Spitzenberg, a variety that his grandparents planted when they established the orchard more than a century ago, to WA 2, a  recent unnamed release from Washington State University’s apple breeding program. He’s also making crosses himself, hoping to breed unique varieties to […]