He would know where to find heirloom strains and which ones were best suited to the northeast.
In the United States, most of the heirloom strains were wiped out, along with most of the feral honeybees, by the tracheal mites and Varroa mites that arrived in the 1980s.
For American farmers, the difficult part about marketing these heirloom strains is convincing consumers to give wheat a second look.
The Samascott family orchard grows 60 kinds of apples on 100 acres, including several old standbys like Macintoshes and Golden Delicious, as well as other more exotic heirloom strains such as the pink-fleshed Scarlet Surprise, and the oddly-ribbed Caville Blanc.
They then had the opportunity to participate in heirloom tomato tasting, using a large variety of heirloom tomatoes grown at Wake Forest University and/or purchased at local farmers' markets.
Marley Natural, a range of marijuana-related products including lotions and "heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains", tellingly has a logo designed by the people who did the Starbucks mermaid.
The new marijuana company will have a suite of products that include heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains said to be similar to the ones Marley consumed.
Heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and a hybrid strain of weed.
Recently, a new dominant resistance locus named Xo1 has been identified in the qualitative resistance against the African clade of Xoc strains of the American heirloom rice variety Carolina Gold Select (Triplett et al. 2016).
Carolyn J. Male, a microbiologist and tomato aficionado whose "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden" (Workman, 1999) is one of my tomato bibles, calls the Sudduth strain "winy, robust, mouthwatering, sweet, tart and complex".
Even so, the dispensaries, by serving as a gold standard for producers and consumers, have fuelled the popularity of high-end strains in much the same way that the popularity of the Whole Foods grocery chain has brought heirloom lettuce to ordinary supermarkets.
