Caley Winter Lecture – John Marshall & Andrew Skea
Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, United KingdomHeritage Potatoes John Marshall will track the early usage of the potato in south America, its arrival in Europe and then becoming established as a major food source of the rapidly growing population. Our overdependence on the crop, then famine and the upsurge in breeding of new varieties. He will discuss the “Great Potato Boom” […]