I talk about this every growing season. Its amazing agricultural exists given how few replicates each generation of farmers gets to grow out. It gets even crazier when you think breeding plants and directional selection. I guess the successes only come from countless failures.
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Breeding projects like Kernza are monumental life long efforts. Agriculture is a secret shared in the field from one person to another. It takes a decade of gardening to be good.
Heirlooms are the long history of gardeners who cared enough to pass it on. The saving of seed and moving of plants around the globe is a story not talked much of. The potato is not from Ireland and the Tomatoe is not from Italy.