Taming Fruit: From Fruit Forests and Oases to Orchards - Livestream

Join us for this very special book talk with author Bernd Brunner as he takes us through his fascinating new book Taming Fruit: From Fruit Forests & Oases to Orchards.

Early orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest. In the Amazon, Indigenous tribes maintained mosaic gardens centuries before colonization. Fruit cultivation developed over thousands of years in various parts of the globe. As populations expanded, fruit trees sprang from the lush gardens of the wealthy and monasteries to fields and roadsides, changing landscapes as they fed the hungry. The story of fruit cultivation is a story of how humans have shaped and bent nature according to our desires for millennia.

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