Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a new study.
"When Europeans started to move through and into the interior of the continent in the mid- to late 1600s, they noted that there were way more varieties of peaches being grown by Indigenous peoples ...
making for a significant and ever-changing shift in what can grow here. Peaches and plums in Nikiski, walnuts and cherries in Anchorage, asparagus in Fairbanks — a striking array of crops being ...