end\ New World Creation husbandry is the proleptic practice of that hospitality: a many-sided process of cultivation, adaptation and inheritance in which human intention is one agency among others, and our shared future exceeds any single participant’s design or possession.
![2/ The wedding of global agrobiodiversity and local food cultures is where a vast inheritance of planetary intelligence condenses into a living grammar—a shared language by which nourishment is bound to adaptation, adaptation becomes culture, and the universal is made particular.
[Image of Isfahan label attached to quince cutting, held in hand.]
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We’re well-placed, here. 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. Diversity is power](/media/2093354616792727891-HQ0W7Y2awAAFCT_.jpg)
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2/ The wedding of global agrobiodiversity and local food cultures is where a vast inheritance of planetary intelligence condenses into a living grammar—a shared language by which nourishment is bound to adaptation, adaptation becomes culture, and the universal is made particular. [Image of Isfahan label attached to quince cutting, held in hand.] Quote tweet: We’re well-placed, here. 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. Diversity is power
The tomato, as ecumenical council. This one—its seed was originally gathered by USDA collectors in Isfahan, in 1940—is ripening now in my Oregon garden. We speak of civilizations as though they were sealed vessels. Yet the humble fruit knows better: the deeper order is one table.
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Tomato, unassuming, held in my hand.