Honeycrisp to become official state fruit

Pioneer Press
May 19, 2006
Bill Salisbury

The Honeycrisp apple will soon become Minnesota's official state fruit, thanks to Laurel Avery's 2005 fourth grade class at Andersen Elementary School in Bayport.

The Minnesota House today voted 101-23 for a bill bestowing the designation on the Honeycrisp, an apple developed by the University of Minnesota in the 1960s. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tim Pawlenty for his signature.

As a class project last year, Andersen's students discovered that 20 other states had official state fruits but Minnesota didn't. They decided it should have one and picked the Honeycrisp because of its Minnesota origins.

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