Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing
4/ Modern breeding programs select for varieties requiring intensive industrial inputs. Fuji variants, for example, crash fast in the maritime PNW without chemicals. That said, we're big fans of moderns thriving organically at the homestead level. If it fits, it works, our faith.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Mar 2022
This arrived today. A testament to ‘Goldrush’, a modern cultivar and one of the targeted ‘future heirlooms’ #agrariansharingnetwork has been actively promoting almost since we began earnestly tracking the relative performance of ca. 4.5K apple varieties, across the maritime PNW. x.com/covidyoga/status/1504526221836623872
