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The Pancake Patch

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Gene Logsdon, one of my favorite gardening/farming authors, wrote a book in 1977 titled “Small-Scale Grain Growing.” In it, he talked about the common gardener competitions to have the best, biggest, earliest or most unusual produce in the neighborhood. Gene … Continue reading

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Corn

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Hard to believe corn was developed from a grass, but that’s the story. Teosinte, corn’s ancestor, didn’t look much like our tall stalks with plump ears; amazing what a few thousand years of careful selection can lead to. We may … Continue reading

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Agroterrorism Prevention

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I was recently reviewing a document created in 2006 on the subject of agroterrorism. Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, it details the potential for terrorists to introduce diseases into plants or animals “with the goal of generating fear, causing … Continue reading

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