If you like nuts, I'd start with something easier to process than black walnuts! Blight-resistant chestnuts (yes, 1 to 2 percent Chinese genes, but will survive much longer and do no harm) or hazelnuts might be the way to go.
Thanks for this context, so to speak. It can seem quite daunting though!
This is basically the whole idea behind Zero Input Agriculture, which Dr. Shane Simonsen writes about on here.
His whole thing is creating wide hybrid crosses and domesticating new and novel staple crops from a variety of sources, while working with the local ecology, climate, and agrology to grow a greater than subsistence level of food in a post-industrial and climate-resilient way.
Super neat stuff and I figured you’d enjoy it just based on all the overlaps mentioned.
I think you’d like his focus on what comes next after this kind of society (petroleum and extraction based) no longer functions. One of the few non-doomers in this sphere.
His most recent work, besides a host of various kinds of locally adapted vegetable species, is a hybrid native canna crop that has the potential to change the energy economics of future societies. Along with working to cross native bunya nuts with their millions of years separated overseas cousins to make one of the first truly domesticated tree crops. Lots of interesting work he’s done!
If you like nuts, I'd start with something easier to process than black walnuts! Blight-resistant chestnuts (yes, 1 to 2 percent Chinese genes, but will survive much longer and do no harm) or hazelnuts might be the way to go.
Thanks for this context, so to speak. It can seem quite daunting though!
This is basically the whole idea behind Zero Input Agriculture, which Dr. Shane Simonsen writes about on here.
His whole thing is creating wide hybrid crosses and domesticating new and novel staple crops from a variety of sources, while working with the local ecology, climate, and agrology to grow a greater than subsistence level of food in a post-industrial and climate-resilient way.
Super neat stuff and I figured you’d enjoy it just based on all the overlaps mentioned.
Not familiar with Dr. Simonsen, but I've written about Vrikshayurveda (the origins of ZBNF) on here's before. I'll check him out!
I think you’d like his focus on what comes next after this kind of society (petroleum and extraction based) no longer functions. One of the few non-doomers in this sphere.
His most recent work, besides a host of various kinds of locally adapted vegetable species, is a hybrid native canna crop that has the potential to change the energy economics of future societies. Along with working to cross native bunya nuts with their millions of years separated overseas cousins to make one of the first truly domesticated tree crops. Lots of interesting work he’s done!
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