When she returned the basket a few days later, it was filled with wild apples.
In the area around Almaty, there are many different species of the wild apples.
The tribe ate by mouth often: berries or nuts, roasted rabbit, wild apples.
"All around the city one could see a vast expanse of wild apples covering the foothills," he wrote.
But what happens when all the wild potatoes and wild apples are gone?
"Run as fast as you can, Deke, up where the wild apples grow," he said.
And now they would be coming for him, hanging in the tree like a ripe wild apple, ready to be plucked.
The origin of the name is probably the old Hallandic word for wild apples, apuld.
He bit a wild apple, then offered the rest of the fruit to his mount.
They were soft and warm and tasted like the skin of the wild apples he'd eaten as a child.