Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Meyer, the founder of Johnny Appleseed Organic, first found out about one of the last known Appleseed trees in the 1990s when ...

Jonathan Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on Sept. 26, 1774. By 1797, the year Zanesville was founded, he was planting what we believe to be his first ...

VOLUNTEERS ARE TAKING UP THE CAUSE. ONE AUTHOR DID A STUDY THAT DETERMINED THAT 42% OF AMERICANS DON’T BELIEVE THAT JOHN CHAPMAN OR JOHNNY APPLESEED WAS A REAL PERSON, BUT HE WAS REAL. 250 YEARS AFTER ...

John Chapman is one of the most misrepresented and misunderstood figures in American history. Otherwise known as “Johnny Appleseed," Chapman could be described as a successful real estate speculator ...

Apples and October seem to go together. Most old farmsteads had an apple orchard. Our home farm had two orchards. One was near the house and had summer apple trees, a Wealthy apple tree and a white ...

Volunteers in the 1980s put together an apple appetizer cookbook that was sold during that year’s festival. Photo courtesy of Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park District LIMA — Between 6,000 to 8,000 ...

In the town more known for plastic yard flamingos, pride finds its way to a native son many believed was folklore. But he was indeed real.Johnny Appleseed, aka John Chapman, was born in Leominster, ...

Not everyone knows about Johnny Appleseed's strong ties to Mansfield. Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman, was a pioneer who introduced apple farming to many parts of the Midwest in the early ...