In love with Santiago del Estero, the "crazy gringo" Peter Felker dreams of exporting high-quality carob flour.

Peter Jonayhan Felker is 77 years old and was born in the city of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, located north of Florida. He was trained and worked in his country as a doctor in Physiology and Biochemistry and researched for 48 years, becoming an internationally renowned authority as a researcher in tuna, carob, and forestry. It was these topics that brought him to give a talk in Santiago del Estero in 1980, because he assures that this province is the "world center of carob biodiversity." Felker claims that these trees "are the best nitrogen fixers, which is the pillar of regenerative agriculture and carbon capture to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, in order to mitigate global warming." He also maintains that both Argentines and Santiagueños should be proud of this and look after their ecosystem. In co-authorship with María Cecilia Puppo, Felker has carried out a work entitled: "El Prosopis como leguminosa fijadora de nitrógeno y tolerante de climas ...