Apple Family

## Introduction

The Apple Family is one of the most well-known Terra family across Equestria. They are the largest apple farmer's, and are a household name.

## The Matriarch

Currently, the Matriarch of the Apple Family is affectionately known as Granny Smith to all that know her. She is known as the pioneer of the Apple Family name.

## History

Before Granny Smith, it was her mother Sew 'n' Sow Smith that spread crop across Equestria. Sew 'n' Sow Smith was born in 893 DCE in a large familial community, including an Aunt Pine Apple and a Great Uncle Apple Tart from her mother's side. When she was 7, in 900 DCE, her mother gave birth to a set of twins, Chili Pepper and Vanilla Applesauce. For a while, the family is happy in their small village, growing various crops and selling them out to the big cities. Sow 'n' Sew always dreamt of exploring Equestria, seeing all that it had to offer.

In 910 DCE, when Sew 'n' Sow was 17, Pokey Oats moved into town. He was born in 894 and was currently 16. She never paid much mind to him, too busy working and caring for her siblings when her parents had to leave town. Till one night in 913, just after she had turned 20, tragedy struck. Her parents hadn't returned from their last trip, and the town had just received word that they had been attacked by some magical creature or another. Sew, her siblings, and her Aunt Pine Apple were transported to the nearest hospital in Manehatten, where she saw her parents gravely injured. The doctors said it would be a miracle worthy of Queen Celestia if they made it. For weeks Sew 'n' Sow travelled back and forth, from the village where she worked tirelessly to keep herself and her family afloat, to the hospital to talk to her parents and siblings. Pokey Oats, now 19, offered to help, and despite her insistence that she could not pay him he worked his rump off to do his best. They got closer, and when her parents finally passed--in peace, the doctors said, they would have felt no pain--she broke down in his hooves. After the funeral, after everything was settled, Sew brings up that old dream of hers on her and Pokey's first date. She wants to explore Equestria. They decide to do it. They bide the year over, saving as much as they could, planning what they could do, where to go, what to see.

They leave in 914 DCE after Pokey turns 20, bidding their families goodbye, Sew especially with the promise to visit her 14 year old siblings. A couple years go by with lots of laughter and great memories. And oh wow, Sew's pregnant! That year is a much slower one, with many pregnancy cravings and sore hooves and backs. On the 8/2/918 Annabelle 'Annie' Smith is born with a coat as green as her grandmother's.

Sew falls pregnant just over a year later. She grumbles and groans about going through it again, but she can never quite keep the smile off her face when she thinks about her little foals for too long. Pokey carries most of the load, the bags and tents in their carriage, a little Annie slung across his chest while Sew carries her pregnancy. They don't realise until about 3/4 of the way in, when the pair stop by a doctor to get checked out, that Sew is carrying twins! Twin boys by the looks of it. Pokey plants his rump to the ground in shock at this, but they keep trudging along. When Annie is around 4 is when Prairie Tune and Happy Trails decide to enter the world. In the middle of the night in fact, in 921 DCE. What is even better is after the next few days the family gets a letter. Vanilla (or Aunty Applesauce as known by Annie) is pregnant! The letter must be at least a few months old at this point. The family head back to Sew and Pokey's little village, where they stay until little Rosabelle Apple is born (Sew laughed so hard and had to explain that Annie's full name is Annabelle, but the young fillies loved it so much that they kept the matching names) before heading back onto the road.

The five of them get into a groove. They each collect seeds they find on their trips, anything from the common daisy to more extravagant moonlily, and when they get to villages and cities they try their luck at selling them. Life...gets hard, sometimes ponies don't want their seeds, sometimes the town they go into is a farming town all set up with the seeds they need. It's nice, in 924, getting the letter that Aunty Applesauce has given birth to beautiful twin colts Corey Apple and Apple Strudel (Sew writes back to stop copying her, but its all in jest). Annie is 6 and the twins are 3 and so is Rose.

They head back to the village, meeting Corey and Strudel for the first time. They stay for a while, and Annie and Rose get as close as young fillies can get. Sew and Pokey have kind of a crisis. Money has been hard, especially with the three extra mouths to feed. Do they settle back into the village? Good ol Uncle Chili Pepper and Aunty Applesauce are here to set her straight. They remember when they were younger, how much their big sister Sew dreamt of exploring all over Equestria. Basically, they kick the family out with food and money and is like live go live your dreams. This was in 925 DCE, along with the announcement that Chili Pepper's wife is pregnant!

With renewed vigour the Smith family (as they're being known by the villages they frequent) get back on the road. They make family games, become familiar with dangerous and not so dangerous creatures, they celebrate the birth of Chili's son, Thread 'n' Needle (an homage to the best older sister, he says in his letter, and Sew weeps) as well as the pregnancy of Applesauce in 926.