Discussing Humans and Fruit
Discussing Humans and Fruit. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report.
Taking a look at history through the things we eat has always fascinated Julia Harrison, a Seattle-based anthropologist. It began with sweets and has progressed to fruits.
HARRISON: When you are an anthropologist, I always describe it as trying to find a window you can look through and see other cultures and other peoples lives and sometimes other times in history and what some of us do is we find a very tiny window and we get really, really close to it
She will present "Ripe for the Telling: Surprising Stories of Washington Fruit" at the Walla Walla Public Library on March 17, 7 p.m.
HARRISON: It is in fact very interesting and can kind of reveal some of the same things about human beings and our relationship with the world, the natural world around up and things we have done to that natural world to achieve our goals.
Harrison says her talk is about getting people connected.
HARRISON: So when I talk about fruit, when I am the end user of a piece of fruit, I am essentially holding on to the last link in a very, very, very long chain that extends to the people who stacks that fruit up in the grocery store, to the people who picked it, the people who grew it but also the people who developed the varieties and even as far back as the pioneers or the people who originally put in those trees or put in the irrigation to allow those trees to grow.
That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.
