Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/ Today, a perfect day with my besties, around a familiar seasonal ritual: cutting scion at what is surely the world’s most diverse pear repository. #agrariansharingnetwork

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 9 Nov 2021

@antoniogm Ecosystems function locally, as do functional efforts at ‘applying diversity’. A defining eco-cultural nexus in this regard? Community collaborations distributing extensive, targeted arrays of biodiversity advancing the regeneration of local ‘reinhabitory foodsheds’.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Trevor_FJ @OrchardNotes Spend a lot of time at the USDA pear repository - 1K named cultivars. An impression: Americans name their pears after Presidents, the French after Duchesses, the Germans after Counts and the English after clergy. 😊 Stand for Old Time Anglicanism! My photo, local pear diversity.Quoted by@Trevor_FJ @OrchardNotes Spend a lot of time at the USDA pear repository - 1K named cultivars. An impression: Americans name their pears after Presidents, the French after Duchesses, the Germans after Counts and the English after clergy. 😊 Stand for Old Time Anglicanism! My photo, local pear diversity.