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The fight to save Chile's white strawberry
The ancestor of the big red strawberry is in peril.
In addition to eating them raw, the Mapuche would dry them like raisins, prepare them in fermented chicha, and use them for traditional medicines to combat diarrhea, dysentery, and indigestion, mainly using the calyx of the plant, wrote anthropologist Héctor Manosalva. Courtesy of Cecilia CéspedesCéspedes worked with the communities of Contulmo and Purén between 2015 and 2018, providing monthly workshops on how to improve plant health, raise yields, manage water use and, ultimately, how to band together to reconcile regional grudges and promote the product as a united force. Lovers of Chile’s frutilla blanca hope that, one day, strawberries can go through a process similar to that of grocery store apples, which used to be uniformly red before their colorful green and golden cousins helped diversify the market.
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