Passengers on motorbikes embrace packs of apples as the driver struggles for balance on steep corners.

BBC: Apple harvest in the Himalayan foothills

More time is then left to devote to his income-generating greenhouse, which uses waste slurry left over from the biogas digester as fertilizer for his grapes, strawberries, apples, plums, cherries, peaches, eggplant, cucumber, tomatoes and squash.

CNN: 'Green' revolution under way in rural China

At the center of the shed, which is littered with building materials, is a red shrine where apples, tea and incense have been made as offerings to a folk god for construction workers.

CNN: Made-in-China superyachts reflect changing tide of economy

As she was leaving, the stager told me I should put a bowl of green apples on the kitchen table for the open house.

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