23 Mar 2021

Former FBI agent now tracking down missing heritage apples

From Afternoons, 3:09 pm on 23 March 2021
David Benscoter

David Benscoter Photo: supplied

For 24 years, David Benscoter tracked down bank robbers and flushed out political corruption as an FBI agent and investigator. Now he spends his time on the trial of something that can be just as elusive: heritage apples.

He searches forgotten orchards and combs through old county fair records to pick up  the trail of fruit thought to have gone extinct. It's called The Lost Apple Project

For more information about the search for Heritage Apples in New Zealand and the work of  Robyn and Robert Guyton, visit the Open Orchard Project website.

David Benscoter

David Benscoter Photo: supplied