The state Department of Environmental Protection says in a news release that the Patriot Guardens Golden Delicious Apple Project will receive $5.3 million.

"We used to grow all Red Delicious and Golden Delicious." said Steve Lutz of Columbia Marketing International, a marketing firm owned by apple producers.

In 1914, we received samples of what became the Golden Delicious apple,” Lane said. “People recognized immediately this tastes good.