Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing

Here's an example of community-based 'applied biodiversity' in Cottage Grove, OR, this past weekend, as we enlarged our 'neighborhood rootstock diversity' planting. Rootstocks, if you didn't know, hold up our food systems. With potluck around the fire-pit to follow, of course.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 May 2021

9/ Admittedly, Oregon’s status as a center of global rootstock production, and our ready proximity to two of the world’s most diverse fruit collections(4,500 apple varieties, 1K pears, 650 grapes, and so forth) biotically boost our eco-cultural chutzpah. youtu.be/Rh0WKLMN_Xc

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Quoted byRT @AgrarianSharing: @nick_routledge @OrchardNotes @ProjectOrchard @ValenzuelaJohn Here's telling ag intel from a professional seed grower and nearby ASN cohort relating to climate impact on crops and cropping strategies, fast-developing just now, including a vital insight into the place of applied diversity as an immediate, essential, resilience-bulwark.Quoted by@nick_routledge @OrchardNotes @ProjectOrchard @ValenzuelaJohn Here's telling ag intel from a professional seed grower and nearby ASN cohort relating to climate impact on crops and cropping strategies, fast-developing just now, including a vital insight into the place of applied diversity as an immediate, essential, resilience-bulwark.