All apples are not alike, as any apple-phile will tell you, and the deeper you fall under the spell of heirloom apple varieties, which number in the hundreds, the more you will hunger to try them. You’ll want to start small if you don’t own an orchard, though, and there’s no better place to begin planting those roots than the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project. MORP’s mission is to preserve and restore Colorado’s heirloom orchards, and it sells trees to fund the nonprofit’s work. Currently you can choose varieties online at $60 each, but you have to pick them up, by appointment. It’s a long drive to Cortez, but it’s worth it.
By Westword, 2021 Best of Denver