Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing

1/3 It's a familiar seasonal ritual, ASN volunteers scattering across the bioregion to collect propagation material for our network of spring propagation fairs. And it was a busy week for it! First, to the OSU’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center, for grape scion.

Volunteers cutting grape scion under blue skies.
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Volunteers cutting grape scion under blue skies.

Once the scion is cut, we have to label and bundle it for further processing.
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Once the scion is cut, we have to label and bundle it for further processing.

Gorgeous weather after a week of rain!
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Gorgeous weather after a week of rain!

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 Jan 2022

2/ The #agrariansharingnetwork team moves among ca. 750 unique grape cultivars, targeting, collecting and freely distributing propagation material among a month-long series of community-based prop fairs throughout our bioregion. How do we get grapes right? youtu.be/Qw60GPPiohE

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Quoted by@Plough 6/ When we began working with tree crops, we knew nothing. 15 years in, a complex holistic ethic informs our collection and propagation of the finest array of diversity we’ve identified from more then 7,000 unique varieties of fruit types we track. Here, apples, pears and grapes.