Today, our volunteers cut scion at the world’s most diverse pear collection—the USDA's pear repository in Corvallis, OR. Frankly, decades in, it's a small civic miracle: a shared assent to the common good—and mutual trust, and long-earned friendship, carrying the whole thing.
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Volunteers gather in the pear field to strategize.
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Amy cutting scion of Ayers pear.
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Kevin handles tracking of everything. We're assiduous about reporting to the USDA. He has a special wheelchair suited to rough, wet ground.
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Ryan, a professional ag scientist, holds down our Corvallis propagation fair. Here, he cuts scion.
@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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