Welcome back to the Borporals Almanac. Today we're joined by Dr. Samantha Bosco to talk about her research on tree crops, specifically

the black walnut.

We dive into bigger conversations about what it means to transition our food system to tree

crop system and what kind of role that has in changing and shifting what our societal

expectations are around food and community.

This is a really great conversation about the big picture of where food systems plays

and how we understand democracy and community.

And I think you guys will really appreciate it.

Check out the show notes for links to all of her projects,

especially the nonprofit where you can donate money to continue her

research and support the future of tree crops.

Samantha, thanks so much for joining us. I came across your research a couple years ago,

looking at black walnut data and what people were doing with it today, came across your

research, and I think

we found some really similar we came to from different paths to the same place of kind of what

what the future needs so please tell us a little bit about your background your research yeah

well first of all thank you so much for having me this yeah, a wonderful opportunity to speak with a wider audience.

And my background is pretty wide-ranging. I have a PhD from Cornell in horticulture, which is really where I focused on agroforestry.

I'm really looking at the role of nut trees in food systems, both deep in the past, as well as into what I think

of as the future. And that has kind of been underlaid by a deeper history of mine in natural

resource management education, as well as some experience with research

at the USDA and a master's basically in soil science, technically in horticulture, but my

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