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2/ 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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Dec 2020

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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Quoted byRT @AgrarianSharing: @brightabyss 2/ We've also spent a decade researching barely-known varieties of winter-pears at one of the world's largest and most diverse pear collections. Today, we gathered fruit from more than a hundred key candidates to track over forthcoming months. We know of no one else at such work.Quoted by@brightabyss 2/ We've also spent a decade researching barely-known varieties of winter-pears at one of the world's largest and most diverse pear collections. Today, we gathered fruit from more than a hundred key candidates to track over forthcoming months. We know of no one else at such work.