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The Very Wild Texas Peach
The Texas peach represents a great human plant introduction into the southwestern U.S. native flora. It integrates into its surrounding environment and continues to broaden its genetic diversity. When botanists first looked at the peach thriving in the southeastern U.S., … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, crop-diversity, ecological enrichment, ecology, environment, food, fruit, heirloom peach, Prunus persica, seeds, wild crops, wild peaches
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Explorations of Fruit Diversity: Black Mulberry
The range of any plant can vary tremendously from high to low elevations, across whole continents not to mention human introductions. With many woody plants, these are not entirely reflected in the selections available in the nursery marketplace. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Black mulberry, crop-diversity, ecology, food, fruit, gardening, Morus, mulberry, seeds
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Dreams of Crop Diversity-The Perennial Bean
The thought of creating or exploring a new crop is a good idea. It is very simple. You start with seeds. All new crops start with new seeds. Like an idea the new seeds are something that no one has … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, bean consciousness, bean hybrids, Beans, beneficial-plants, crop-diversity, ecology, food, garden, gardening, hybrid plants, Lima bean, perennial bean, plant-diversity, seeds, thicket bean, vegetables
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Hog Peanut Moves to the Light
Once a seed repository is built up including varietal selections like Crispy Snack, seeds can be used for the production of the tubers. You can pelletize the seed for greater uniformity and inoculate it with appropriate nitrogen fixing bacteria. It … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biological enrichment, crop-diversity, ecology, edible, food, garden, gardening, hog peanut, nitrogen fixation, plants, seeds, tuber-crop, vegetables, wild, wild plants
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Diversity Explored: The Edible Sunflower
I always was fascinated with the sunflower. There was always so much activity around them. My parents decided to move to a new home when I was 16 years old. It was in a new subdivision in the midst of … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, crop-diversity, ecology, edible, edible oil, enrichment, flowers, food, seeds, sunflower seeds, sunflowers, wild crops
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Chufa-The Savior of Sedges
One of the crop plants I had the pleasure of working with was chufa or tiger nut. I had heard about this plant from a food website describing the use of the crop and how it is cultvated. I ordered … Continue reading
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Tagged chufa, crop-diversity, Cyperus, edible oil, horchata, nutsedge, sedge, tuber-crop
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What Happened To Corn?
If someone came back from a 9000 year journey and saw corn today this might be their first question. What did happen to corn? It is funny to me as this question came to me last year from a colleague … Continue reading
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Tagged corn, corn-flour, crop-diversity, cultivated, food, northern teosinte, teosinte, wild edible
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Simply Making the Plant World More Diverse
One of easiest ways to increase plant diversity in the natural world is to look for potential species that can reproduce and increase on their own without burning, mowing or herbiciding everything to near death. The same can be said … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, Clinopodium, crop-diversity, ecology, food-crop, gardening, native-plants
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One Small Potato in a Seemingly Infinite Field
Let’s suppose you wake up one morning and announce to the world you are going to create a new potato far greater than anything that has existed before. You do a sort of Stuart Smalley daily affirmation, “I’m good enough, … Continue reading
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Tagged crop-diversity, gardening, population, potato, true-seed, vegetables
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