#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
#plantpredation #rarespecies #invasivespecies #agriculturalrevolution #america #farming #19thcentury
beets are a thing
acrostic poem by risa bear (shonin) in What To Do About Trees (2016)
#acrostic #poem #poetry #gardening #plantpredation