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.
Je suis agriculteur et la principale raison de pourquoi je met tout le temps des gants c'est que madame a pas spécialement envie de se faire trifouiller les entrailles par des paluches de troll des cavernes.
Sex workers at one of Nevada’s legal brothels are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America (@CWAUnion), organizers told The Nevada Independent on Tuesday. If successful, it would be the first time brothel workers unionized in the U.S.