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Élisabeth Vonarburg's avatar

Translated and shared.👍

Hubala Bubula's avatar

Another absolutely brilliant article! Restacking now!

Hubala Bubula's avatar

I have worked in ag most of my life. When you go to buy your seed and are choosing varieties, you'll find the information sheets from the companies show trial data for yield. Yield in one year. They test for yield more than that, but let's say they tested for 5 years. Same for practices. Yield effect. With a very, very few exceptions, no one talks about yield over 50, 100 or 1000 years. No one talks >nutrition< per acre. You're article is a wonderful exception. You call it resilience and maybe that's a better term anyway, but a bit more abstract to the average Joe. Anyway, I'm only halfway through the article and I was so excited that I had to comment. Resilience, to borrow your term, is what matters. Extra cash can't be eaten. Yet our system is only focused on the short term.

The Mongoose's avatar

This is exactly right. The first level is to use heirloom plants rather than hybrids. The second level is to save seeds of the ones that do best, and let Darwin's magic begin to happen in your local climate. I'll be honest, with most things we're still at level one on our little permaculture experiment station.

Hubala Bubula's avatar

Same here. And it hasn't helped matters that I bought into that horseshit that one has to move to "get ahead".

The Mongoose's avatar

It’s very hard to do Grandparent thinking in a society addicted to quarterly reports.