Pawpaws with Neal Peterson

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The Forest Garden

Ben Bishop & Mike Amato

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Have you ever wanted to transform your organic gardening practice into something more? Are you interested in ecology, permaculture, or sustainability? This podcast takes a deep dive into these topics, through in-depth commentary and relevant interviews with forest gardeners, permaculturalists, and regenerative system designers. The Forest Garden Podcast is a joint venture between Ben Bishop and Mike Amato, two plant nerds who in the summer of 2020 realized they shared the same alma mater and the same interests in alternative solutions to our rapidly evolving climate.

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Pawpaws with Neal Peterson

The Forest Garden

1 hour 14 minutes 50 seconds

2 years ago

Pawpaws with Neal Peterson

It's pawpaw season! So today we have a very timely episode for you all, an interview with Neal Peterson of Peterson Pawpaws. Neal has spent decades working with Asimina triloba, collecting fruits from orchards across the Eastern United States and improving the largest tree ripened fruit of North America into the seven named cultivars that we know so well today. Allegheny, Potomac, Rappahannock, Susquehanna, Shenandoah, Tallahatchie, Wabash...you may have heard of these cultivars, but do you know how they came to be? In this episode we take a deep dive into Neal's breeding work and learn about the selection process that lead to these improved fruits release into the nursery industry. We also discuss the growing requirements for pawpaw, the culture that has evolved around this species over the past half century, food allergy/annonacin content concerns, and much more. This is an episode not to be miss missed, stick with us.

Peterson Pawpaws:

https://www.petersonpawpaws.com/

Places to buy pawpaws in the northeast:

Cricket Hill Garden - https://www.treepeony.com/

Broken Arrow - https://www.brokenarrownursery.com/

Logees - https://www.logees.com/

Perfect Circle - https://www.perfectcircle.farm/

Upcoming festivals (shoutout to Encygropedia for this epic list!):

Ohio Pawpaw Festival: https://ohiopawpawfest.com/

Frederick Maryland Festival: https://ecologiadesign.com/paw-paw-festival-longcreek-homestead/

Powhattan, Virginia Festival: https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/event?id=2023-05-24-17-33-29-969019-x6b

Pawpaws at West Farm Nursery, Branchburg, NJ: https://nofanj.org/event/farm-tour-pawpaws-at-west-farm-nursery/

1st Annual Pawpaw Festival, Louisville, KY: https://www.louisvillenaturecenter.org/upcoming-events/2023/7/27/first-annual-pawpaw-festival

York County Pawpaw Festival, York, PA:

https://hornfarmcenter.org/pawpawfest/

West Virginia Pawpaw Festival, Morgantown, WV:

https://arboretum.wvu.edu/wv-pawpaw-festival

Annonacin Content Research:

Progressive supranuclear palsy and pawpaw - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7156197/

Annonacin and Squamocin Contents of Pawpaw - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32761515/

Annonacin in Asimina triloba fruit: implication for neurotoxicity - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/