#maize

[geopsych]

Yesterday one of the window prisms was casting its rays around.

[loppy-darii]

"When you're lost in the universe (lost in the universe) don't lose faith. My mother said "your whole life is in the hand of god""

Happy anniversary to Oneshot, probably wouldn't meet the people i look up to and appreciate now without it

[mapsontheweb]

The word 'maize' in European languages.

by Ave-Nar

[drafthearse]

The aerial roots of Sierra Mixe maize secrete large quantities of mucilage between 3 and 6 months after planting. The mucilage is carbohydrate rich, with the composition dominated by arabinose, fucose, and galactose. [x]

[mindblowingscience]

Maize is one of the world's most widely grown crops. It is used for both human and animal foods and holds great cultural significance, especially for indigenous peoples in the Americas. Yet despite its importance, the origins of the grain have been hotly debated for more than a century. Now new research, published Dec. 1 in Science, shows that all modern maize descends from a hybrid created just over 5,000 years ago in central Mexico, thousands of years after the plant was first domesticated. The work has implications both for improving one of the world's most important crops and for understanding how the histories of people and their crops influence each other.

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[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Burgundy ~

[tailssupremacy]

The residents of the refuge (george, ling, lamplighter, kip, mason, basically do whoever you want, there are a lot of characters there) and tiny maize

I remember you said you're struggling to finish requests, so you can skip over this one, and finish it when you're feeling better, if you want to!

hi!!!!! sorry for the wait of 3 months……………. here you go!!!!!!!

i had fun drawing this!

[mikaseidukas]

The Sun must be very nice to hold indeed :)

Could add more details here and there, but here's a version of the scene with Maize and the Sun. Messing with the lighting was also fun, as well as comparing this to one of my first Oneshot drawings from 2020!

[seasonalwonderment]

Make a new year’s resolution to grow ancient crops | Cape Gazette

[here-at-the-eleventh-hour]

suppose i might as well post some art i've made recently

[spectrogramsunshine]

I always forget to post art lol heres a Maize :>

[junawashere-art]

day 01 - maize

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[loppy-darii]

"Wonder how everyone is doing?"

[dalvs-wife]

it's rude to talk about someone who's listening.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Vargas is among farmers in Mexico who’ve been holding on to heirloom strains for generations, against a flood of industrially produced white corn. They’re finding a niche but increasing market among consumers seeking organic produce from small-scale growers and chefs worldwide who want to elevate or simply provide an authentic take on tortillas, tostadas and other corn-based pillars of Mexican food. Corn is the most fundamental ingredient of Mexican cuisine, and it’s never far from the national conversation. Amid President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s move to ban the importation of genetically modified corn and his imposition of a 50% tariff on imported white corn, some scientists, chefs and others are advocating for the value of the old varieties in an increasingly drought-stricken world. Heirloom varieties make up far less than 1% of total domestic corn production in Mexico. But for the first time in years, Vargas and others are hopeful about the crop. Some in the academic and public sectors hope to increase its production.

[...]

Across Mexico, about 60,000 tons of heirloom corn is produced annually. It’s a tiny fraction of the 23 million tons of white corn grown on an industrial scale to meet domestic demand for human consumption and the 16.5 million tons of yellow corn that Mexico imported last year — mostly from the U.S. — for industrial and animal feed use.

[oneshotfutureau-askblog]

Maize! How are you? How quickly does a plant spirit get regrown?