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Peaches From Pits: Peach Nirvana

January 27, 2025

For the last couple of years I have been sending free samples of seeds of Iowa peach seeds out to everyone that has ordered from me. Who doesn’t love a surprise seed?  I was fortunate to receive these seeds from known provenances isolated from other peaches in Iowa. Many of these go back to the the 1920’s when the first peaches were carried north by the Native Americans and used in the southwestern United States.  My first encounter with this peach was through Seed Savers Exchange. It was listed as a peach found in a ditch in Iowa. That is all I knew. These wild forms of cultivated food plants are highly valuable. It doesn’t  require breeding and the plants have adapted to their location over time. It is not native which is an advantage due to its adaptation strategies and it is something we eat on a regular basis. It provides a food in an environmentally friendly way free of insects and disease.  One mature tree could potentially produce enough seeds to plant 10 acres of peaches and one orchard could easily produce enough for any given region in the United States. And to think it all started from the pits.  Read about it more below on biologicalenrich.

Peaches From Pits

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