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- From: yarrow@sfo.com
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:55:29 -0800
Title: locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET
You're asking 2 separate questions:
1. which crops give the most nutrition?
Jeavons has analyzed that question in his books -- calories per
square foot, and most nutritious crops. I have seen other books that
rank crops this way.
2. which species and varieties are best adapted to the local
conditions?
To answer this, I'd look for people who have been saving seed in
the area. One easy place to start is community gardens, if there are
any in your area. In my community garden, lots of people have been
very successful with a purple-podded bean. But we don't know the name,
because we grow it from saved seed.
Also, people who save seed are, in effect, breeding a local
variety by selecting seed from individual plants that produce best or
taste best. So you won't necessarily find those varieties at any
store, though you may find a variety that someone started with to
breed their local variety.
"E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
wrote:
For any given area, there must be crops that give the most
nutrition. Surely someone can tell me what open-pollinated
species and varieties to grow without me spending 10 years learning
the hard way. By way of example; I want to grow the Three
Sisters (corn, beans, squash), so I asked at The Natural
Gardener, Austin's best nursery. The lady working in the seed
department had grown many of the varieties there, but had never heard
of the Three Sisters. I also asked online: One reply, and
only about corn (samples, but no name). I don't understand: I'm
convinced and I know how to grow stuff, but I can't find out WHAT to
grow. "Everything" is not an option I can
pursue.
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[Livingontheland] DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
TradingPostPaul, 03/09/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 03/09/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET, TradingPostPaul, 03/09/2007
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[Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
yarrow, 03/10/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
Gloria Baikauskas, 03/11/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
Barbara Fischer, 03/11/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET, E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 03/11/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
Gloria Baikauskas, 03/11/2007
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[Livingontheland] Corn,
The De Mesas, 03/11/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] Corn, Gloria Baikauskas, 03/11/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET, Tradingpost, 03/11/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET, Barbara Fischer, 03/11/2007
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[Livingontheland] Corn,
The De Mesas, 03/11/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
Ken Hargesheimer, 03/11/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET, Barbara Fischer, 03/11/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
Barbara Fischer, 03/11/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] locally adapted varieties, was DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
Gloria Baikauskas, 03/11/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] DIET FOR A DEAD PLANET,
E. E. Mitchamore Jr, 03/09/2007
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