Bill Mayo, shown here harvesting one of his 300 Honeycrisp trees, discovered the Franklin Cider Apple at the edge of his orchard in northern Vermont.(Courtesy Bill Mayo) Sometimes good things come in large packages. For the owner of a small orchard in New England, that “good thing” came in the form of a big and beautiful chance-seedling tree that so happens to produce just the kind of apples that are in high demand by the rapidly expanding hard cider market. The fruit is called the Franklin Cider Apple after the orchard’s location in Franklin, Vermont. The discovery of the one-of-a-kind […]