As Vivian returns from her Mississippi road trip to the fall harvest, she confronts her long absence from the dinner service at Chef and the Farmer. She travels to an heirloom apple tree collector, Creighton Leigh, the Johnny Appleseed of the Southern apple, who grows 800 varieties in the rolling hills of North Carolina’s Piedmont. Savory and sweet heirloom apples are in grits with cheddar and ham and triple-decker apple pie with a crust made from fresh-rendered lard makes an appearance on the menu. Vivian tries her hand at drying apples and her neighbor schools her on a sweet Southern snack called Applejack. Vivian, Ben, Theo and Flo don boots and shovels to plant their very own Southern apple tree on their Deep Run property.