@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.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: For your climate I’d suggest 🍇 Italia, Vanessa, Einset, Alborz, Venus, Autumn Royal. All have thicker skin & store well with “normal” methods 😉 (kangina method in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 is 😲) All grow well organically. More info in my pub: catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/catalog/files/project/pdf/ec1639.pdf I believe we may have even thicker-skinned material among the 150 or so varieties we selected from Nick Botner’s 750 or so cultivars in recent years. And also, leaf diversity for dolmas and the like. This portrait, as the seasons changed, there. I presume we have edibility intel?
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.
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Volunteers cutting grape scion under blue skies.
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Once the scion is cut, we have to label and bundle it for further processing.
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Gorgeous weather after a week of rain!