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 ecOasys (by design) Nature AND Nurture for a Sustainable Future
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