Joseph Postman
USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository (retired)
Joseph Postman retired in August 2019 from the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon, where he worked for more than 35 years as a plant pathologist and curator. He helped to develop the living ‘World Pear Collection’ representing genetic diversity of pear cultivars and species from around the world. Along with his wife, Lois Olund, he is now tending his personal collection of a hundred or so apple cultivars, an assortment of blueberries, grapes and pears, and a flock of Wensleydale sheep on their small farm outside of Corvallis.