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So, 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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 9 Mar 2022

@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: @HaddenTurner end\ We embrace moderns but the great majority we recommend are heirlooms (Hudson’s Golden Gem, a local apple, may be the most distinctive I’ve tasted among thousands) and, as befits our own provenance, global. We carry pear varieties with 2,000 year(!) histories of cultivation.Quoted by@HaddenTurner end\ We embrace moderns but the great majority we recommend are heirlooms (Hudson’s Golden Gem, a local apple, may be the most distinctive I’ve tasted among thousands) and, as befits our own provenance, global. We carry pear varieties with 2,000 year(!) histories of cultivation.Quoted by@NatureSchoolSU That must feel good. Here, from Nick’s in Yoncalla, another clip in a thread on how dirt-under-fingernails regenerative practice in the PNW eclipses the contrived spectacle propping up abstract geopolitical frameworks—because living systems answer to natural law, not stagecraft.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor I'll be soaking in that a while. For now, an echo describing one of my great mentors also fighting as an infantryman with Patton. (He lied about his age to join his brother.) Quietening, afterwards, in the AK wilderness for 30 yrs, Nick then built the world's largest apple feast.Quoted by@pauljpastor I'll be soaking in that a while. For now, an echo describing one of my great mentors also fighting as an infantryman with Patton. (He lied about his age to join his brother.) Quietening, afterwards, in the AK wilderness for 30 yrs, Nick then built the world's largest apple feast.Quoted by3/ Much as the American people are drawn from across the planet: so, analogously, are our biodiversity collections. All told, a bio-cultural union, synthesis and synergy, grounded in the Real, affording us access to an unprecedented regenerative partnership.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @allanjenkins21 Much as the American people are drawn from across the planet: so, analogously, are our biodiversity collections. All told, a bio-cultural union, synthesis and synergy, grounded in the Real, affording us access to an unprecedented regenerative partnership. And we're working it.Quoted by@allanjenkins21 Much as the American people are drawn from across the planet: so, analogously, are our biodiversity collections. All told, a bio-cultural union, synthesis and synergy, grounded in the Real, affording us access to an unprecedented regenerative partnership. And we're working it.Quoted by@aesthetikeit Images, scraperboard, and pen on scrap paper, Winter ‘08-‘09.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @kmslvl One of the loveliest images of apples in Ukraine I found, by Sergeyev, is titled, ‘Apple Blossom in Malorussia.’ Without a path of solidarity uniting us all, nationalist distinctions become terrible, and landscapes such as these, minefields. There is a truly healing way, forward.Quoted by@kmslvl One of the loveliest images of apples in Ukraine I found, by Sergeyev, is titled, ‘Apple Blossom in Malorussia.’ Without a path of solidarity uniting us all, nationalist distinctions become terrible, and landscapes such as these, minefields. There is a truly healing way, forward.