Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Crops, animals, wild relatives …
Purple sweet potato fries? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Anyway, let Ted Carey try to convince you.
“The CIP breeder sent me about 2000 seeds from crosses between purple parent plants that looked promising for regions like ours. In 2007, we planted those seeds at K-State’s John C. Pair Horticulture Center near Wichita. Each seed had the potential to be a unique new variety.”
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Ford reminds us that, if you’re going to feed the world, there’s more to animals than meat and milk:
There are some other potential benefits to using animals, despite their intrinsic inefficiency. They can buffer food supply: build up herds in good years, eat them (and any grain they would have eaten) when crops fail. See “Future Harvest: pesticide-free farming” (or similar title) for other benefits: growing more soil-conserving forages becomes more economic, graze weedy fields rather than building up weed seed bank, etc.
That title? Future Harvest: Pesticide-free Farming (Our Sustainable Future).
