In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to fit the land. As a result, there are many varieties of corn domesticated by our ancestors, all adapted to grow in many different places. Modern agriculture, with its big engines and fossil fuels, took the opposite approach: modify the land to fit the plants, which are frighteningly similar clones.
β Robin Wall Kimmerer, βBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plantsβ (2013): p 134
β Robin Wall Kimmerer, βBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plantsβ (2013): p 134
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