#crops

[froggyforest]

[nemfrog]

"Mushrooms grown on greenhouse benches." Mushrooms: how to grow them. 1901.

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[geopsych]

People have watched the sun rise over barley for around 10,000 years. Today it was my turn.

[snekdood]

so I found this really cool website that sells native seeds- and you might be asking me "snekdood, haven't you posted an entire list of websites that sell native wildflower seeds that you're going to add on to soon?" and yes that's true, but that's not the kind of native seed im talking about rn.

see, on my quest to find websites that sell native wildflowers, I came across this dope ass website that sells seeds that have been farmed and harvested by ntv people traditionally, i'll let the website do the talking:

so anyways this is the coolest website ever. you can find the wild relatives of chiles on here called chiltepines, you can find different colors of corn and cool squash's, and every seed from whichever farm has it's own lil origin story written about it. you can also find other veggies here that are already commercially available to help fund and support this organization. as well as there being a cool gift shop with a lot of art made by different native folk from all around as well as cookbooks, jewelry, pottery, weavings, and clearly plenty more:

as well as a pantry?? with premade soup mixes??? and i really want to try them now??????

anyways I think its worth snoopin' around bc I'm almost positive you'll see something you think is cool (oh also if you happen to have some seeds passed down from ur family too and ur also native they seem like they would gladly help produce more)

[mapsontheweb]

Map of U.S. crops

[bisquiibits]

If you're a crow then this is the perfect disguise: let people think you're helping them to protect their crops by playing the scarecrow but when they aren't around you can eat as much as you want >:3

Please do not repost, recreate, edit or trace, thanks~ :3

[typhlonectes]

There are more than 1,000 varieties of banana, and we eat one of them. Here’s why that’s absurd...

The lack of diversity could mean the fruit’s extinction. It offers a stark warning of what could happen to other key foods.

Most people don’t question why every banana they’ve ever eaten looks and tastes pretty much the same. Most of us will never try a blue java from Indonesia with its soft, unctuous texture and flavour of vanilla ice-cream, or the Chinese banana that is so aromatic it’s been given the name go san heong, meaning “you can smell it from the next mountain”. The demand for low-cost, high-yielding varieties has resulted in vast monocultures of just one type of globally traded banana, and this is true of many other crops as well. Homogeneity in the food system is a risky strategy, because it reduces our ability to adapt in a rapidly changing world...

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/1000-varieties-banana-lack-of-diversity-extinction

[lionfloss]

Lombok Island by Daniil Korzhonov

[greekceltic]

Another 'warmup' that spiraled. The setting I write about is a spirit world for domestic cats that living beings can visit. The cats are dead, but they're fleshy spirits that eat, sleep, etc. They're born under a crop that they identify with for the rest of their (second) life.

There's not a Dog's Way within the same story as the Cat's Way, but someday I'll peck at lore for one. Probably as a standalone non-narrative thing. I have lots of friends who love dogs.

[sportsandlaughs]

[digitalfossils]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Featuring Yellow ~

[wizardvapes]

[jamie-photo]

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have achieved a breakthrough in molecular plant pathology, marking a technological leap forward for breeding durable disease-resistant crops. Plant pathogens—organisms which cause plant diseases—greatly reduce agricultural productivity and are a persistent threat to global food security. Annually, rust pathogens lead to crop losses of US $1 billion worldwide.

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[doctorslippery]