THE JOURNEY OF AN APPLE
An online resource Yakima's Love Affair with the Apple follows the journey an apple makes from bud to table.
Sections of The Journey of an Apple are still available in the Yakima Valley Museum. For more teacher's resources, see our teacher's resource page.
A virtual apple, made possible with
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February 1998 - January 1999
When you think Yakima, you think apples. ...but our valley was not always apple country.
Yakima Valley’s history—its very identity—is associated with the apple. The apple industry brought many of our ancestors—and many of us—to the Yakima Valley. There are over 78,000 acres of Yakima Valley apple orchard. Apples are the core of our economy.
What are the roots of Yakima's apple industry? How does an apple make its journey from seed to store? How has Yakima become synonymous with Apples?
An educational handbook produced as a teacher's guide for the exhibit Yakima's Love Affair with the Apple
Made possible through a grant from the Washington Apple Education Foundation
35 pages of apple history, apple facts, and classroom activities
Available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format (3.4 MB) - A is for Apple
