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  • From: "Alex Mcgregor" <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] RE: Response to Mr. Shoemaker
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:03:10 -0400

You're right, Christina. Ants have been called the "First Farmers." I
read an article last year or so (maybe "Science News") about a species of
ants that cultivated a specific fungus on plant material in their burrows.
They harvest this as their main food source.

The article also mentioned that members of a colony who leave to start a
new colony take some of the fungus with them to start a new farm.

Alex McGregor
Walden Farm

> I really don't want to start a off-topic discussion, but I think there has
> been some research in this area. Certain "other earthly creatures" do
farm.
> I don't remember all the specifics, but certain insects do farm. I also
> found an interesting article on snail's farming here:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1098954,00.html





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