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tama

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18. Yes
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 09:56 PM
Jan 2013

And the scope is almost unimaginable nowadays, all of California a food forest tended by Indian fires etc., the pre-Columbian Amazon civilization of which we only now beginning to learn about, etc.

Those are old skills that we can relearn, but we have also new skills to add to the mix. Many plants have been using humans very effectively to spread them to new areas and to widen their gene spool. Johnny Appleseed is just one, but classic example, of a human serving a plant, which gave him also the name by which he is best known. Sometimes things go kudzu, from our limited human point of view, but that too is... interesting. Besides edible and medicinal.

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