A Marshall Strawberry
This file appears in: The Strawberries That Saved Orcas
This is a modern Marshall Strawberry; a descendent of the strawberries once grown in Olga but modified to be resistant to the diseases that ran rampant through the past crop.
This file appears in: The Strawberries That Saved Orcas
The Strawberries That Saved Orcas – How a new crop brought wealth and prosperity to Orcas during the Great Depression.
Despite years of successful farming of apples, plums, and other fruit species regularly found in Washington, the Great Depression brought a challenge and then an innovative solution to Orcas Island.
The twenties and thirties on Orcas Island…