Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
An ab$traction tyranny? Bartlett, Anjou and Bosc account for 94% of all pears grown in the US. Why were @AgrarianSharing volunteers cutting scion from among 1K unique varieties at the world's most diverse pear collection, today? Applied diversity distinguishes coherence for real.
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Volunteers collecting scion (clonal propagation material in the form of cuttings) at the USDA pear repository in Corvallis, OR.
Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing · 10 Mar 2023
@ProjectOrchard @AbundanceYork @proforma_ @SowtheCity @BecLupton end/ We're lucky. Much as the American people are drawn from across the planet: so, analogously, are our biodiversity collections. All told, a bio-cultural concatenation representing unparalleled regenerative potential for human and earthly solidarity. Pear diversity is power!
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