East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Origins of the Domestic Apple
In 1998 he travelled to Central Asia with some Oxford colleagues in search of the Ur apple. They went to Kazakhstan to Alma Ata, now known as Alma Tea. The year they found forests of wild fruit, wild pears, plums, apricots, hawthorns, rowans and apples - all malice-siversy. From the hard and the tart to apples that tasted remarkably like our own familiar cultivated apples. He reckoned there were now some twenty thousand varieties in the world, including over six thousand recorded in Britain.
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