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end/ #AgrarianSharingNetwork, the grassroots, eco-cultural, PNW-based, regenerative design project, derives significance, in part, from our proximate access to the world’s most diverse pear collection, at the #USDA pear repostory in Corvallis, OR. ?s=20

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 Sept 2020

@VenetiaJane @MemoryLaneRV @VanceMc14 @AlpernMildred @figstreetstudio @abcwinemarieg @yegbasil @FukushimaHrc @ThielsGH @GregBourke3 @HaplessGardner Thought you might enjoy this picture of pear scion, cut from the USDA's pear repository in Corvallis, OR, and headed toward the Agrarian Sharing Network's volunteer-driven, PNW, neighborhood-based, propagation fairs last spring. And pears collected for one of our fruit shows.

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Quoted by@ProjectOrchard @AbundanceYork @proforma_ @SowtheCity @BecLupton end/ We're lucky. Much as the American people are drawn from across the planet: so, analogously, are our biodiversity collections. All told, a bio-cultural concatenation representing unparalleled regenerative potential for human and earthly solidarity. Pear diversity is power!Quoted by2/ Two days ago, our fall research took us to another vast fruit collection central to our decades-long effort identifying 'future heirlooms' - the USDA pear repository in Corvallis, OR, home to ca. 1,000 named pear varieties. Then, with friends, a tasting.