RPK · @rpk
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obsession with 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 seeds and ship them to Washington—which the US Department of Agriculture used in the following decades to jumpstart the nation’s industry. fuel

#plantpredation #rarespecies #invasivespecies #agriculturalrevolution #america #farming #19thcentury

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Shonin · @shonin
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beets are a thing

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

#acrostic #poem #poetry #gardening #plantpredation

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