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  • From: paul@oneseedling.com
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Two agricultures not one
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:34:39 -0500

Onion greens, turnip and mustard greens, broccoli etc.

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On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:41 AM, EJ <emj@uvic.ca> wrote:

> rose hips, black currants
>
> On 28/09/10 2:14 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
>>
>>> Where do folks in the higher lattitudes get vitamin C in the winter, if
>>> not for oranges?) > Barbara M
>>> Foster, RI
>>
>> I remember when oranges where still relatively new in many parts of
>> Europe.They were nearly inedible for being so sour. So I would guess that
>> people in higher latitudes had other ways of getting vitamin C for
>> thousands of years before oranges reached them.
>> A tea/infusion made from pine needles did it for locals in the Arctic
>> region and they saved many an "explorer" from scurvy death with that.
>> john
>>
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