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David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries.
Aug 2, 2024 · David Fairchild (born April 7, 1869, Lansing, Michigan, U.S.—died August 6, 1954, Coconut Grove, Florida) was an American botanist and agricultural explorer who supervised the introduction of many useful plants into the United States.
- Melissa Petruzzello
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands...
Feb 20, 2018 · In the early 20th century, botanist David Fairchild traveled the world and brought plants back to the U.S. that we now see as thoroughly American. NPR talks with the author of a book on...
- Ari Shapiro
You've probably never heard of David Fairchild. But if you've savored kale, mango, peaches, dates, grapes, a Meyer lemon, or a glass of craft beer lately, you've tasted the fruits of his globe-trotting travels in search of the world's best crops—and his struggles to get them back home to the United States.
Sep 14, 2018 · David Fairchild (1869-1954) traveled the world on behalf of the U.S. government and introduced more than 200,000 varieties of crops and plants to this country. His signature, along with the self-described title “agricultural explorer,” sits among his extensive annotations about Japanese plants and crops, including a note about cherry ...
A pioneer among them was David Fairchild, who nabbed avocados from Chile, kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, and much more. In this episode, we learn about Fairchild's remarkable adventures and take a surprise trip to the Smithsonian's archives to uncover a rare piece of food-spy history.
