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Phone & Mail
Steve Cummins:
1408 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca NY 14456 email--
or call
607-227-6147
Dr. James N. Cummins
(Jim)
Office Phone:
(315) 789-7083
Cummins Nursery Blog (Check weekly
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Stories from Cummins NurseryThis is a section of Cummins Nursery dedicated to stories (preferably in some way connected to fruit and/or farming). We are open to stories you send in as well!!! Kicking Leaves in Mr. Gage's Orchard | The Drive from Kinmundy | The Yellow Transparent Orchard | The Spray Crew |Hoodlin' |Loading Reefers | Ben Davis |Thirsty Cider | Backyard Orchards | Dad, Peeling Apples | Little Pearl and the Hot Box | Applebutter Time DAD, PEELING APPLES Freckles on top of freckles and tiny nicks from his knife, Spots of blood turned to brown scabs. My father's hands have never changed. Every night a different apple skinned naked, split and seeded without him ever looking down, loving the fit of apple in the left hand, brown-handled knife in the right. He licks the tip of his finger where the juice runs clear and skewers a slice for me which I take regardless of whether I want an apple or whether the flesh has begun to brown around the edges. When he is done, knife set down and fingers wiped clean against the legs of his beige corduroys, I will take the leathered back of his hand to my cheek and hold it there, begging his weathered roots to spread their soil-caked fingers long and strong as deep as the generations will go. | |
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