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  • From: Patrik Schumann <ecoasys@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Introduction of apples to North America
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:35:32 -0800 (PST)

May I offer to this discussion the work of William Dunmire, The Gardens of New Spain, who traces plantways back from the northern frontiers of a slightly earlier colonisation of N America, to the horticultural hub which Spain had become largely through the Arabs collecting and testing everything between Europe and Papua New Guinea...

(see description:
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/dungar.html. 


Also Estevan Arellano, an agricultural historian and traditional grower from northern New Mexico who initiated the Camino Real Project recovering survivors of those old varieties and is central to a group re-creating those Al-Munyahs (private horticultural experiment sites), has brought us Ancient Agriculture: Roots and Application of Sustainable Farming, a seminal handbook dating from those times...

(see description: http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Agriculture-Application-Sustainable-Farming/dp/1423601203


And see Frank Browning, Apples, for a look into north American culture of the apple plus a search back to the apple's origins in Central Asia...

(see description:
http://www.amazon.com/Apples-Frank-Browning/dp/0865475377)


Patrik Schumann




Patrik Schumann
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Nature AND Nurture for a Sustainable Future


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