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@antoniogm For regenerative designers, intensifying biodiversity renews and reinvigorates the eco-cultural harmony, health and resilience upon which planetary life depends. How does Gruzhovka of Moscow, one of our favorite apple discoveries, play a role? Video, 2021. youtu.be/9BHwGyUNNiU

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Quoted byRT @AgrarianSharing: Applied agro-biodiversity has this quiet mercy. You lose a treasured mother tree (death, felling) and thus, the power to propagate it. Then you find the variety still alive—in the care of someone you once supplied. This week’s recovery? Gruzhovka of Moscow. Why does this matter?Quoted byApplied agro-biodiversity has this quiet mercy. You lose a treasured mother tree (death, felling) and thus, the power to propagate it. Then you find the variety still alive—in the care of someone you once supplied. This week’s recovery? Gruzhovka of Moscow. Why does this matter?Quoted by@Plough @BenQuash 4/ But the insight needs to be pressed further: beauty isn't a spectator sport. It's not something we can stand back and observe; it's also something we participate in bringing forth through right relation with earth, neighbor, and God.Quoted bySo, who in Oregon planted the 4,500 unique varieties making up the world’s most diverse apple orchard and, as such, a cornerstone planetary resource for foodshed experts researching ‘future heirlooms’? As it happens, the American-born son of a Ukrainian mother and Russian father.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @moshik_temkin The world’s most diverse apple orchard, of ca. 4.5K cultivars? Created by a Ukrainian, Nick Botner. The #agrariansharingnetwork were in it today - a final pass - gathering our most-favored apple varieties, including a Holy Trinity of Russians. Russo-Ukrainian culture, US soil.Quoted by@moshik_temkin The world’s most diverse apple orchard, of ca. 4.5K cultivars? Created by a Ukrainian, Nick Botner. The #agrariansharingnetwork were in it today - a final pass - gathering our most-favored apple varieties, including a Holy Trinity of Russians. Russo-Ukrainian culture, US soil.