An appreciation of the importance of crop diversity

There’s an important post entitled Vegetables of Mass Destruction over at The Daily Kos, a blog. Important not so much for the content, most of which is familiar, well-meaning and just a tad parochial, but for the location. The Daily Kos is one of the most popular sites in the blogosphere, averaging around half a million visits a day. If just some of those readers go away with a slightly better appreciation of the value of agricultural biodiversity, that will be A Good Thing. So thanks to cookiebear and The Daily Kos for their support.

One Reply to “An appreciation of the importance of crop diversity”

  1. Thanks, agro!

    Yes, it is parochial, but I hesitated to go too far — I worry about people getting either overwhelmed by the subject and therefore not doing a thing – or going into the “yea, right” mode.

    But it’s such an important issue and I barely even touched the surface.

    I am thrilled to learn about this blog! I am a wannabe farmer-ecologist – even botanist and wildlife biologist :=D – and strongly believe the more information we can get out there on this subject, the better.

    And I would love to see some series on dKos written by someone who really knows what they’re talking about.

    The Vegetables of Mass Destruction series is very popular — I posted that diary simply as a part of the series, but boy, I know the person who started it would love to have someone who really knows their biodiversity write for it.

    ::hint hint::

    Her username at dKos is OrangeClouds115 – do you mind if I point her over here and strongly suggest to her that maybe the subject needs much more in-depth coverage — not to mention, fits perfectly with the series? Would you be willing to write something for the series?

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