I was introduced to crabapples when my children were young and I was living in the suburbs. I was homesteading, but didn't have room for fruit trees, so I scoured our town for food-bearing trees on public land. (There were quite a few...and it seemed I was the only one bothering to harvest from them!) One of the trees closest to our house had small green tart apples - crabapples! I had no idea what to do with them, although my children didn't mind eating them raw. What I learned was that…
