Language: Swedish
This is the story of how the photographer Charlie Drevstam fell in love with a forgotten and overgrown apple farm in Österlen.
How he brought it to life and learned all about care, pruning and varieties. And finally how to make the precious drops we call must. - Saw the ad online and took the car down on a November day to form an opinion. Detached plot from old apple plantation, it said. The snow was decimetres thick and black sprawling, seemingly dead trees could be seen behind tangles of thorny thickets and brambles. It was hard to tell what was alive and what wasn't. In their quest for light during the decades that the plantation had been untouched, the branches of the apple trees had pulled in extreme directions, and when the sly and other things were eventually removed, some trees did not look wise. This is a book that tells how I, from the beginning almost completely ignorant, brought the old abandoned apple farm in Österlen to life. How the place changed and how I realized a dream. But it is also a book about how I learned more about how to prune an old tree, about the fruit and about that amazing juice that you can squeeze out of it, a craft that I want to share here with all other beginners and apple lovers out there.
CHARLIE DREVSTAM is a photographer and has taken the pictures for many well-known cookbooks, including Tommy Myllymäki's books and Paul Svensson's Vegetables A-Ö. This is the first book where he is responsible for both images and text.
PRESS VOICES ABOUT THE BOOK:
"A beautiful and instructive book." / The newspaper Gård och torp
"The reader gets a lot of food-useful and practical facts, which are brought forward by Charlie's personal story about the journey he made in his apple cultivation. Stories that make the book well worth reading even for those who are not really that interested in tree pruning and fruit mold. " / Magazine Österlen
"It is an easily accessible, content-rich and not least very pleasant book. It is illustrated by the author's own photos, and they clearly live up to the expectations you can have of a professional photographer." / Library service
Product information
Author & Photographer: Charlie Drevstam
Designer: Sebastian Wadested
Editor: David Möllersten
ISBN: 9789189215535
Language: Swedish
Weight: 470 grams
Released: 2021
Publisher: Polaris Fakta
Pages: 151