Through the decades I’ve witnessed the top-down abandonment of public stewardship of planetary agro-biodiversity, firsthand. So it’s deeply gratifying to see public employees and retirees refuse that drift—deliberately backing @agrariansharing’s applied agro-biodiversity work.
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.