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28 Sep - 6 Oct 2014 - Kazakhstan - Nursagim Ashikbayev, L, and Nurzhan Mukhamadiyev, R, inspect a gouge in the earth where an excavator has removed topsoil from a mixed grove of cultivated and wild apples. The city's rich use the topsoil to landscape their gardens, but it is gathered illegally. Genetic diversity is threatened in the US by industrial agriculture - but genes are still strong in Kazakhstan, the ancestral heartland of the wild apple.
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Father of Apples
28 Sep - 6 Oct 2014 - Kazakhstan - Nursagim Ashikbayev, L, and Nurzhan Mukhamadiyev, R, inspect a gouge in the earth where an excavator has removed topsoil from a mixed grove of cultivated and wild apples. The city's rich use the topsoil to landscape their gardens, but it is gathered illegally. Genetic diversity is threatened in the US by industrial agriculture - but genes are still strong in Kazakhstan, the ancestral heartland of the wild apple.