The Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project can be described as many things: an agricultural project, an economic development project, a history project — even an apple scavenger hunt.
Jude and Addie Schuenemeyer founded MORP in 2014. It has several orchards in Montezuma County. The Schuenemeyers’ own orchard and nursery in McElmo Canyon grows more than 200 different apple varieties.
One of their main goals is to preserve every kind of apple grown in Colorado.
Sometimes that involves a treasure hunt — like the Schuenemeyers when he set out to find the Thunderbolt apple. Listen to and read full story at CPR News.
By Carla Jimenez and Nancy Lofholm | September 2, 2021
Photo by Hart Van Denburg/CPR News, August 30, 2021.