30 September 2011

The promise of the paw paw


Paw paw tree. C-J files, Michael Hayman. 
NPR has put some attention on the paw paw, a fruit native to Kentucky and Indiana, among other Midwest and Southern states.


The item touches on the efforts to commercialize the paw paw.

Turns out that Kentucky State University has a program aimed a helping people grow them in their back yards, or on farms. KSU bills it as the only full time paw paw research program in the world. Look here. And you can follow the program’s work on Facebook, here.

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