Our certified organic apples are grown free from any sprays. Which means that sometimes they aren't the prettiest apples, but they are delicious.
A Freedom apples tastes sweet. It won’t leave a bitter aftertaste on your tongue like some other varieties. Cheddar and blue cheese pair well with these apples on charcuterie boards as they bring out the sweetness in the fruit while that sweetness brings out the tangy flavors in the cheese. They also go well with fall spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice in pies, apple butter, and cider.
Freedoms are also great dipped in peanut butter as a snack for kids. To make it an extra fun snack, supply little dishes of sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, and crushed pretzels so the kids can dip their peanut butter apples into additional toppings and create a layered, tastier snack.
Why We Grow It: Low maintenance, disease-resistant, vigorous, good flavour, and a good keeper... all in one apple! Freedom is the perfect variety for growing organically, for pick-your-owns, backyards, and community orchards. Large red skinned apple, similar to McIntosh in flavour with sweet, subacidic, sprightly flavour and juicy white flesh. Crunchy, fine grained flesh.
History: Freedom was developed in a breeding program at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York in 1958. The goal was to create an apple that was immune to apple scab, and this particular variety was chosen from 120 other apples that were planted out from seed selected through an intensive breeding program. It was released in 1983 and given the name Freedom to represent its freedom from apple scab.