Beauty and Biodiversity in Romania’s Hayfields | Atmos
The seasons are identified through signals from biodiversity, such as specific ‘calendar plants’ that indicate when it is the correct time to undertake fire management practices that reduce fuel load and lessen the risk of destructive wildfires. Calendar plants also inform First Nations peoples when it is the appropriate time to harvest certain
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can get some idea of the untapped potential of agriculture by reading F. H. King’s fascinating 1911 book, Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, which explains how these regions sustained enormous populations for millennia on tiny amounts of land, without mechanization, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers.
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