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The Harrison apple nearly vanished in the 20th century but now grows in one of the world’s highest-elevation orchards at Colorado’s Snow Capped.

Hundreds of thousands of times each year in California, farmers and their contractors spray pesticides on fields and orchards in the state’s agricultural heartlands.

He started working in the orchards when he was 12 years old to help his father buy food and pay the bills.

There was no dense and mysterious forest nearby, only bright orchards of fruit trees arranged in tidy rows, and the spires of Swanburne’s chapel were visible for miles around.

Isabella Dalla Ragione hunts in abandoned gardens and orchards for forgotten fruits, preserving Italy's agricultural heritage and saving varieties which could help farmers withstand the vagaries of a changing climate.