Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G TouchToby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
wrote:Great stuff--and Alan K is a genius. But it looks like auto-spell check
got in there: "mash" should be mashua, and "bacon" is yacon. Both are
available at various nurseries, as is oca and, a little harder to get,
ulloco. I love 'em all. Full of magic polysaccharides, hormone-like
substances. and other good nutrients.
> What is the most successful root-based agriculture in the world? It
> all comes from the Andes in South America. Like the ones who gave us
> the potatoes, now give us oca, mash, achocha, ulluco, bacon, chichi,
> mauka, topotopo — one crop after another, none of which are known
> pretty much by anyone who gardens in the United States. That means we
> have the opportunity to take what is an Andean, high-altitude,
> sustainable food system — not based on meat, but based on roots. And
> we can incorporate it as part of the native food system that was here
> and develop an organic, sustainable food system that's tested out by
> hundreds, if not thousands of generations of people.
>
> —Alan Kapuler
>
>
> The plants Alan mentions are very hard to find in the US. It would be
> good to compile a list of nurseries that have this material available.
> I got oca One Green World a few years ago.
>
> ~mIEKAL
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