How long before Bayer owns the patent for anything grown from it.
Heavy winds, rains and hail can make the tall stems flip over before the grain ripens, ruining harvests. But Grossi circumvented the problem by planting miracolo with shorter wheat varieties that provide structural support.
Reminiscent of Indigenous Americans Three Sisters planting approach. Corn stalks provide support for bean stalks that fix nitrogen and both are shaded by squash that protects moisture. Diversity in agriculture helps in multiple ways.
The bible, weirdly, doesn’t want people planting two crops in the same field.
Like, is there ANYTHING it gets right?
As a desert based society, some of the stuff it tells you not to eat indeed is probably a good idea. Circumcision also serves a purpose in such a society.
Like I’d argue those don’t make sense NOW, but back then it was reasonable advice.
Annoying title, decent article.
Working with the lab of Teofilo Vamerali, then a professor at the University of Parma, Perobelli determined that the grain was Triticum turgidum—literally “swollen wheat” in Latin. Known in English as “poulard wheat,” it had originally evolved in what today are Turkey, Egypt and other nearby Mediterranean countries. And searching agricultural references, Perobelli found that it had been grown in Italy, too, until farmers shifted toward higher-yield commercial varieties. That solved the mystery of the seed bag stashed away in the attic: It had survived because Grossi’s grandfather saved some of the heritage grains.
Nah that were was a lot of fluff and religious stuff all though. It read like a story, I gave up half way despite it being a possibly good information piece.
So whats biblical about it?
A biblical quote described the ear he’d grown, and was the first place he found out more about it after the literature he’d consulted contained nothing.
The Smithsonian is under the thumb of Mango Mussolini, so they have to work in that sort of thing where possible.
They are?
They did make a whole bunch of christian references, which is part of my iffyness with the actual text.
The story they tell starts in the 90’s.
Yeah. He’s forced them, and the Parks Service to change displays or remove them. Some of the moves have been blocked/reversed by the courts, but the sweaty orange stains are sticking in some some spots.
Not as impressive, but I managed to grow some Nasturtium seeds I gave my mom for Mother’s Day in 1994ish. Grew them in 2024 when she pulled out the card.
3 seeds were taken by mold or something, 1 was cracked, and out of the remaining 2 seedlings sprouted and another 7 or 8 failed.
Was a fun experiment.
Now I want 1900s bread too!
