I'm going to this next week! I leave on Weds and get back Sat night. It's about 3.5 hrs away and they are really progressive and vegan-friendly, it should be lots of fun!
Back to reading about weeds. I love them, they are brilliant. The history of weed science is pretty funny. In the 50s and 60s they were saying that weeds would be eradicated in ten years. Then they started to see that a single bullet approach never works and just causes weeds to develop resistance (plus, the whole ecocide issue). I can't help but admire these sturdy, nutritious plants (since they are great at scavenging for uptake) that make it where nowhere else can, when humans are hellbent at destroying them, to the point of endangering their own health. Now everyone is realizing you have to have a more ecological/systems approach to get anywhere, that you have to manage but not destroy them, that you can look for intercropping with cash crops or using weeds for special things (biofuels etc), and other interesting things. I will have a focus on weeds for my project, so it's all good to know.
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