Go, Pigweed, Go

WiNaDeYo · 05-26-2009, 09:40 PM

My dear wise part-Cherokee grandmother used to say "Weeds are nothing but flowers growing in the wrong place."

She and my mom grew a type of amaranth (****'s comb)[ha! the old word for rooster] in their flower beds. I don't remember ever eating any (although I knew you could because my ancestors did), but we would save the seed from year to year, and those plants sure made a lot of seed!

One of my favorite quotes is "wild flowers don't care where they grow."

My Senior thesis for my '85 BA in Biology/Botany was entitled "The Diminishing Genetic Diversity of Modern Agriculture", pro-seed banks and anti-GMOs. That was back during the boom when they were passing off GMOs as the "way of the future" to "save a starving world." I was ridiculed and greatly critisized by the Genetics Dept of my college during the Q&A session after my public presentation. But I knew I was right! And it is true! Yiihaa! The truth always wins!

Unfortunately, even back then we had already lost a huge amount of bio-diversity. Now, we don't have too much to go on, but it isn't impossible to turn things around, thanks to existing seed banks and folks that still produce non-GMOs. It'll just take a while to get those GMO's destroyed so they don't cross breed and contaminate our resources.

And I, too, join in with my "Go! Pigweed! Go!"

Peace and Good Will!

05-26-2009, 09:40 PM	#7
WiNaDeYo Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Lombardy, Italy Posts: 222	Re: Go, Pigweed, Go My dear wise part-Cherokee grandmother used to say "Weeds are nothing but flowers growing in the wrong place." She and my mom grew a type of amaranth (****'s comb)[ha! the old word for rooster] in their flower beds. I don't remember ever eating any (although I knew you could because my ancestors did), but we would save the seed from year to year, and those plants sure made a lot of seed! One of my favorite quotes is "wild flowers don't care where they grow." My Senior thesis for my '85 BA in Biology/Botany was entitled "The Diminishing Genetic Diversity of Modern Agriculture", pro-seed banks and anti-GMOs. That was back during the boom when they were passing off GMOs as the "way of the future" to "save a starving world." I was ridiculed and greatly critisized by the Genetics Dept of my college during the Q&A session after my public presentation. But I knew I was right! And it is true! Yiihaa! The truth always wins! Unfortunately, even back then we had already lost a huge amount of bio-diversity. Now, we don't have too much to go on, but it isn't impossible to turn things around, thanks to existing seed banks and folks that still produce non-GMOs. It'll just take a while to get those GMO's destroyed so they don't cross breed and contaminate our resources. And I, too, join in with my "Go! Pigweed! Go!" Peace and Good Will!