While industrial agriculture invested billions in breeding corn varieties that require ever-increasing amounts of fertilizer, Dr. Walter Goldstein pursued a radically different path.
Great article. More breeding needs to take this direction. More research needs to look at regenerating soil (not "feeding" it) to provide a natural substrate for plant growth.
I was reading about Korean Farming. It also stresses the relationship between living soil and plants. If I can ferment cabbage and make sauerkraut, I can try making fermented plant food for my garden.
appreciate the article. it's easy to overlook how for decades the lions share of crop breeding has been done so with explicit neglect and disdain for soil microbial communities.
Oloton corn from Oaxaca produces sugary sap that can feed soil nitrogen fixing bacteria. So the fact that corn can support nitrogen fixing bacteria is fairly well known. Getting Oloton seed in North America however is very difficult. So which nitrogen supporting types of named corn with available seed are available for interested farmers to experiment with ?
Great article. More breeding needs to take this direction. More research needs to look at regenerating soil (not "feeding" it) to provide a natural substrate for plant growth.
I was reading about Korean Farming. It also stresses the relationship between living soil and plants. If I can ferment cabbage and make sauerkraut, I can try making fermented plant food for my garden.
No doubt, regenerative and sustainable.
Is there any corn left that has not been gentically modefied?
Thanks. It’s a great leap forward in plant breeding ,farming and for people’s health. Keep it coming.
appreciate the article. it's easy to overlook how for decades the lions share of crop breeding has been done so with explicit neglect and disdain for soil microbial communities.
Oloton corn from Oaxaca produces sugary sap that can feed soil nitrogen fixing bacteria. So the fact that corn can support nitrogen fixing bacteria is fairly well known. Getting Oloton seed in North America however is very difficult. So which nitrogen supporting types of named corn with available seed are available for interested farmers to experiment with ?