#america #farming #19thcentury obsession with #PlantPredation by collecting had broader geopolitical motives. In 1827, when Poinsett was serving as ambassador to Mexico, president John Quincy Adams ordered all US diplomats to collect #rarespecies seeds and ship them to Washington—which the US Department of Agriculture used in the following decades to jumpstart the nation’s #farming industry. #invasivespecies fuel #AgriculturalRevolution

beets are a thing

acrostic poem by risa bear (shonin) in What To Do About Trees (2016)

#acrostic #poem #poetry #gardening #PlantPredation