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The pawpaw is America's largest native fruit. Once loved by George Washington, it's now nearly forgotten and survives today largely thanks to backyard gardeners. Producer Guy Hand visits one of those gardeners in this installment of Edible Idaho.
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Paw Paws
Edible Idaho Feature: 1014GH_Pawpaw.wav Feature 4:00 10/14/11 GH/
[HOST INTRO] This is Edible Idaho with Guy Hand, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food. (4:00 to soc out)
[SCRIPT]
Hand: I’ve come to Jan Huskey’s Meridian, Idaho backyard to learn about a little-known fruit: the pawpaw.
Huskey: Oh, I’m just a common home gardener that happened to run into a friend that knew about pawpaws and he says, “Jan, you’ve got five acres. You ought to plant a lot of things and one of the things you ought to plant is pawpaws.”
Hand: I hadn’t heard of pawpaws until I spotted Huskey’s on display at the Boise Co-op one fall. This friend of his had grown the fruit back in Alabama, but Huskey, an Idaho native, had never tried one.
Huskey: I said “What’s pawpaws? I never heard of that.” He says, “Well, it’s this Native American fruit that grows in America; he later told me about the...
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