CREECA Lecture Series

Jake Fleming, UW-Madison. The world’s largest walnut-fruit forest in Kyrgyzstan, features wild populations of walnut, apple and more. These trees grow profusely in some places, but through the practice of grafting, can transform into the dependable inhabitants we find in temperate gardens. Fleming examines a Soviet-era program of systematic forest modification, with material consequences and how residents of forest villages use grafting today to redistribute botanical material on the landscape.