Jake Lundahl
@LundahlHorses
Écuyer. Cowhand. Knowledge Architect. Armchair Philosopher. Polymath. History Buff. Posting thoughts from the saddle. Experimenting @Prax0l0gy
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Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.
In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.
He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.
Absolute legend.
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