Neal Peterson Presents: The Unexpected Pawpaw Popularity
In this pre-recorded webinar, Neal Peterson, pawpaw researcher and breeder, teaches about the often-unheard-of native fruit tree, the pawpaw! Born and raised in southern West Virginia, as a teenager Neal became a self-taught naturalist of the Appalachian flora. In 1976 while in graduate school studying plant genetics at WVU, he tasted his first pawpaw fruit - and was immediately converted! He decided to domesticate them since nobody else was, hoping to bring them the popularity they deserve. For the next 22 years, this was his avocation; his vocation was working for the USDA Economic Research Service until 1998. During those first years, he explored the historic pawpaw collections of the early 20th century, collected what he found, and grew almost 1500 pawpaw seedlings. Thirty years later (and reams of data later) he selected the best seven of the 1500 and released them. Though retired, he continues his devotion to the pawpaw and continues breeding.
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I want to thank Neal for a lifetime of hard work and research dedicated to pawpaws. I hope to one day shake your hand and buy you a beer🍺
When my paw paws bear fruit, I always bring them in to work, and we have informal "tasting events" so that people can learn about paw paws and learn what they taste like. It has always been a positive experience.
I live in Omaha Ne and do a lot of Hiking. I find Pawpaws all the time throughout our forests here. I always remember their location and come back for the fruit. Almost all the seeds i harvested have sprouted. I have 32 trees growing in the back side of my yard. I ended up buying a few different varieties to see what kind of cross pollination i get.
In an age where designing and moving genes seem so easy as to be trite and the value of life becomes only worth what the NY Stock Market says it is, the idea of devoting one's life to understanding a plant and its development in real time is stunning. Yes, if remotely possible a decent living should be made. Just as important the ecosystem should be living and respected, perhaps even healthier and vital for your having interacted with it. What Neal has accomplished is truly wonderful and will echo through the years and perhaps centuries. I deeply appreciate what he has done.
I just bought 2 pawpaw of shenandoah and susquehanna. Time flies and by the time we know, they will bear fruits. :) I fall in love with pawpaw. :) Thanks Neil for all the useful info.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm planting 8 paw paw tress in my backyard this spring. So excited!
Thank you Neal for your hard work. I’m growing for now only 2 of your Pawpaws Susquehanna and Shenandoah . Hope I will taste it this year. Have few, 2 year old, from Kentucky state university, they send me seeds. Nice I was able to find this video! Wish you best and God bless you
Excellent, excellent presentation! Thank you for your lifetime of intellect, and work, Mr. Peterson.
Thank you so much! You are so kindly to give us this information. Very interesting.
I am growing tree Paw -Paw in Hungary in Dunabogdany. Produced nicely this year ,it was a dry summer ,but did ok.
Wild Paw Paw's in Oak Point Campground Lake Glendale Recreation area in Shawnee Forest. First exposure and ate two this fall in Oct.
I feel honored to have watched this.
Very good information! Thank you!
Planting 3 pawpaws ASAP. Wish I knew about them more earlier!
great stuff, thanks for the information Neal! I've got some Shanendoa and Susquahanas going- looking forward to some fruit in the next couple years
Thanks for info
Yes! Please do a perennial tree/bush crop food forest/permaculture video!
That interesting, pawpaw whistles! I remember when I was kid we was doing them in spring, when bark can slip, from hazelnut wood
I think I remember seeing the Paw Paw on the Farm in Greene New York Chenango County
amazing video!