RT @AgrarianSharing: Word has it that our ‘Shady Grove Grex’—a highly diverse, multi-species genepool of our best leaf Brassicas, having passed through two cycles of intense natural and human selection under punishing conditions—is already shockingly resilient under severely restricted winter light.
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Matt, a former apprentice from 15 years ago, and now one of ASN's more experienced volunteer growers, delivers seed of his increase on the 'Shady Grove Grex' along with key intelligence relating to its performance, and picks up another couple of populations for stewarding through this winter.
An inaugurated eschatology is but a world fully inhabited. Community-developed and -stewarded crop genepools are a slow social practice by which that correspondence becomes durable and inherited: new creation as lived ecology, bred into time.