Faced with the criticism that unbred plants cannot produce sufficient food, Arne Victor Garvi created a concept called Wild Perennial Polyculture. By creating an economy based on this concept, the idea was to prove that people can, in fact, live from these plants, that are nowadays known as Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS).
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@IndigenousFoodSov Natalie Mueller, from the article, actually did an interview on the Propaganda By The Seed podcast last year. Check it out! It's a fascinating listen!
https://propagandabytheseed.libsyn.com/eastern-agricultural-complex-with-natalie-g-mueller
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In this episode we talk with about the . The EAC was a group of plants independently domesticated by Indigenous people of Eastern Turtle Island (aka North America) starting 7,000-8,000 years ago. Some of these plants, like the Sunflower () we still know and love, but others are no longer commonly cultivated and are generally unfamiliar, like Sumpweed (). Natalie mentions some of these resources in the interview: , and
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