More accurately, John Chapman, who distributed Swedenborgian church tracts with those packets of seeds all along the American frontier of his time.
As was William Penn, on the Quaker side, largely still confined in old England.
It’s curious how individuals’ religious motivations get excised from the sanitized histories.
The Book, or Bible, if you prefer, is filled with a lot of revolutionary vision for those who want to reclaim and then pursue its fulfillment.
So starting with apples, which do get a bad but undeserved rap at the beginning of the epic, seems a fitting place to begin.
End of sermon. For now.
Jnana's Red Barn 
Not surprising that the religious motivations of so many get dropped from the stories. They don’t fit today’s narrative.
So many things that are “human rights” issues today are so only because of the idea in Christian and Jewish theology that we are the imago dei. Logically, if we are just another animal, then why care about the rights of others?
Amen!