East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Origins of Apples
Around 7,000 years ago something momentous happened on the plains of Kazakhstan. The horse was domesticated and soon started to travel the trading routes. Apples would also have been a highly portable source of food for both horses and traders. By the time the Romans introduced the domestic apple to Britain, they had learnt the secret of grafting. Barry Juniper chanced on the early origins of grafting while riding his bicycle through Oxford one afternoon. He has found at least 47 apple place names, towns and villages such as apple bee and apple door.
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