East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Origins of the Domestic Apple
Roger Deacon travelled widely, but always returned to that timber-framed farmhouse. Barry Juniper spent years searching for the ancestors of the domestic apple. The wild apple of the Tian Shan Malus Civersus evolved into the domestic apple and eventually found its way to Britain with the Romans. What follows here is a chapter from Roger's Wildwood in which he tells by means of the story of a seed and a tree how Roger continues to root and branch through my life.
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