hi i'm matt with stark brothers we're here in marceline missouri today we're all familiar
with walt disney but did you know that he spent a significant portion of his childhood growing
up here in marceline and you might wonder well what's the connection that brings us here today
well it's apples of course we're here at the walt disney uh family farm with kaye
mallons kaye is the executive director of the walt disney hometown museum here in marceline
and kay we read a note that walt had written he said as an adult more things
of significance happened to me in marceline that have happened since or likely ever will
and it's real interesting i'm hoping you could share a little bit more with us how walt's time
here on the farm in missouri affected the rest of his life well we're really
glad to see you matt we always love it when our stark brothers family come to the disney farm
marceline the farm met so much to walt that he carried it in his heart the rest of his life
as you said he said more things than importance happened to him here and he had to think here
on this very ground is where he experienced his first drawing he started drying underneath his
dreaming tree here in marceline he held his first family circus in the barn right behind us here in
marceline and so all those childhood first he held very dear as the most important part of his life
that's great so my family and i not only being gardeners and you know fans of gardening and
fruit trees but we've also been fans of walt disney and his story and on a vacation a few
years ago we went to the walt disney family museum out in san francisco and one of the exhibits there
in the beginning has an audio clip of walt disney being interviewed and he's reminiscing about his
childhood here in marceline and he's talking about the apple orchards that he had and that really got
me excited and i was really fun to hear the story and he was talking about these wolf river apples
we had what we call wolf river apples they were that big people came for miles around to see
our orchard to see these big things and when we got back um we attended an event here at
the museum in town and i had a chance to chat with you and asked if you had any of those apple trees
still here on the farm i remember that yeah and unfortunately there were none well but
thanks to our friends at stark brothers we now have wolf river apple trees on the disney farm
a few years ago we had this huge event disney company event here in marceline when they brought
d23 cast members and guests to marceline for a special event here on the disney farm and thanks
to you guys we planted 13 trees apple trees here on the farm in marceline and the very special part
of it was that the disney company was so excited about it that they actually sent soil from the
studio in california enough that each guest got to put a little bit in when we planted the trees
and they they had apples on before you told me they would ever have them i mean i thought
was that disney magic maybe it was the magic fertilizer i think that was that i think that's
stupid yeah very cool yeah so the wolf river apple is an interesting apple um it's one of the
larger apples they grow up to be like five inches wide and i was looking us for comparison because
we don't have one right now it's early spring but comparison a softball is about four inches so this
is a little bit bigger than a softball so that is a huge apple they weigh about one pound when
you know when they get to maturity it's one of the most naturally disease resistant apples
which makes it great for low maintenance gardening for people who don't really have a lot of time to
yeah it comes from the wisconsin area and it grows really well up far north so it's cold tolerant
and grows great up there and people just love them and so we know walt disney loved them we heard the
stories about him talking about them and so rumor has it that uh his mom would bake one pie with a
single wolf river apple she did and actually flora was very famous for her pies here in merceling
and walt loved his wolf river apple pie and actually it was something that family carried
on tradition with wherever they lived they didn't always get wolf river apples but they made this
that wonderful apple pie but i happen to have the recipe for you oh wow that is a wolf river apple
pie recipe that walt's mother used to make here on the farm with river apples yeah and i have to say
it is really really really good really really good recipe so do you mind if we share this with
uh oh please do we would love every one of you so we'll uh add this recipe to our website and put a
link in it in the description below so you all can try it and we're excited to try it ourselves it's
delicious you're gonna love it cool for people who are interested in learning more about marceline
what are some of the other um you know things that marceline has to offer for well of course we have
the walt disney hometown museum we were gifted 3 000 artifacts by walt disney's little sister ruth
so we tell an amazing story here kind of the story of the disney family and especially their time
here in marceline uh adjoining the the disney museum is also our railroad marceline railroad
story and which is one ticket you get in for the whole thing there so we have little railroading
exhibits as well there are seven disney sites in marceline that guests can do on their own
we're sitting in front of one of them right our guests can actually walk on the disney farm
and see all the signage on the way and then visit walt's barn and so for our audience who are fans
of gardening and trees we're actually sitting right in the middle of an historic arboretum
full of trees from all different historical sites we are we are indeed actually all of the trees
here tie back to walt disney in some way uh for instance just for instance uh the amelia earhart
tree is here and that ties back to walt and charles lindbergh and all the plain crazy he
very first very cool too so all the trees have a significance meaning that are here on the farm
so we had a lot of fun just kind of walking around and exploring and seeing what was out
here so i know anybody else would surely enjoy it as well well you know marceline is also
the inspiration for main street at disneyland yes yes so you can walk down the original main street
usa and enjoy all the shops there and things to do there we have the only federal building in the
united states named after walt disney the walt disney post office building is right downtown
you walk through ep ripley park which is walton in the steam locomotive he wrote in opening day
of disneyland so there's this all kinds of great yeah so go to the museum enjoy the museum and get
a tour of downtown starting may 14th you can take a qr co code tour of the historic sites
in mercenary so anybody come to merceling use your phone you can learn about all the history
of the town very cool okay if people would like to learn more about the museum and how to come visit
where can they go to get more information it's really simple you just go to waltdisneymuseum.org
okay great so we'll put a link to that on our website below and then also if you're interested
in a wolf river apple tree of your own we'll have a link to that product page on our website and
then just note that it's a very popular tree and sometimes we sell out of it earlier in the spring
so if it's not available when you see this video there's a little link that says
sign up for email notifications and you can get notified them when the next batch is available