Meet the Keswick Ridge, N.B., farmer growing apples as old as King Louis XIII

Take a stroll through Daryl Hunter’s apple orchard and you stroll through history — along an ancient Roman road, through the court of King Louis XIII of France, to the Niagara Peninsula home of Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812.

In some places in his orchard, you’ll get a lot of this history from a single tree. 

Hunter has 150 varieties of apples, including 100 considered historical and often growing next to each other on different branches of the same tree.

“It’s more exercise than collecting stamps,” said the 75-year-old.

A variety of apples from Hunter’s hobby orchard.