Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing
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@brightabyss 1/ It's that time of year we head out and about to explore specifically for long-hanging fruit very often associated with good storability - just now around old farmsteads in the Cascades foothills. Our choicest finds? Unnamed, seedling varieties with superb all round character.

Chris Homanics with the 100% volunteer-driven Agrarian Sharing Network gathering fruit from one of 40-50 trees we sampled today as part of our traditional late-season adventuring in search of fruit with strong long-keeping-in-storage potential. Here, collecting from a tree established by original homesteaders over a century ago.
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Chris Homanics with the 100% volunteer-driven Agrarian Sharing Network gathering fruit from one of 40-50 trees we sampled today as part of our traditional late-season adventuring in search of fruit with strong long-keeping-in-storage potential. Here, collecting from a tree established by original homesteaders over a century ago.

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Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing · 18 Mar 2023

@SeedsDiversity 3/ Don’t let the poetry fool you. Because we’re no fools. We’ve emerged at the forefront of the PNW ‘future heirloom’ intelligence network with a proven record identifying and freely, widely sharing the most promising annual and perennial cultivars in our bioregional midst.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: 'Professor Chris' and I have now spent a decade prowling the world's most diverse apple orchard, interpreting, tracking and sharing a dizzying array of its 'hidden' arboreal powers. In there, in all seasons, yesterday marked our traditional annual visit to examine 'late hangers.'Quoted by'Professor Chris' and I have now spent a decade prowling the world's most diverse apple orchard, interpreting, tracking and sharing a dizzying array of its 'hidden' arboreal powers. In there, in all seasons, yesterday marked our traditional annual visit to examine 'late hangers.'Quoted by@IntractableLion @aspiringpeasant If it's on Armstrong Road, I likely know it. After lumbering around one up there, a neighbor told me I'd been caught on trail camera by the Oakland PD SWAT team, in one of their favored out-of-town hunting grounds! I farmed for a while at the site of the original County forge.