#agriculturalhistory — Public Fediverse posts

i'm learning so much from the book "nature at war: american environments and WWII", edited by Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Peter Mansoor:

"In the South, the government encouraged farmers to plant quick- growing kudzu, the bane of many of today’s native plant enthusiasts and gardeners, with payments up to eight dollars an acre. Hence, even after the war cut off access to kudzu seed from Japan, Soil Conservation Service nurseries in states across the South kept farmers supplied with kudzu. Kudzu and lespedeza took on new significance during the war. Because nitrate factories produced bombs as well as fertilizers, enriching soils with nitrogen-fixing crops meant more artificial nitrogen could go to munitions. As one 1942 booster of legumes put it, “Oregon’s 200,000,000 pound crop of Austrian winter pea, vetch, and crimson clover seed this year is the quivalent of 24,000,000 100-pound bombs.” The crops’ use as animal feed also took on new wartime meaning. Legumes like kudzu made protein-rich hay that could replace the protein-rich components of animal fodder cut off by the war, like fish meal, which were seen as essential to maintaining and boosting meat production."

#WWII #agriculture #history #AgriculturalHistory #kudzu #InvasiveSpecies #plants

📖 The book 'Plantation Knowledge' includes a chapter by Marta Macedo that 'explores the deep entanglements established between São Tomé and the Congo through projects of cocoa plantations over the course of two decades, from the early 1890s to the early 1910s.'

🔓 The book is available via #OpenAccess: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/17059

#Histodons #Colonialism #Belgium #Portugal #Congo #SãoToméEPríncipe #Plantations #Cocoa #AgriculturalHistory

📖 The book 'Plantation Knowledge' includes a chapter by Marta Macedo that 'explores the deep entanglements established between São Tomé and the Congo through projects of cocoa plantations over the course of two decades, from the early 1890s to the early 1910s.'

🔓 The book is available via #OpenAccess: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/17059

#Histodons #Colonialism #Belgium #Portugal #Congo #SãoToméEPríncipe #Plantations #Cocoa #AgriculturalHistory

📖 The book 'Plantation Knowledge' includes a chapter by Marta Macedo that 'explores the deep entanglements established between São Tomé and the Congo through projects of cocoa plantations over the course of two decades, from the early 1890s to the early 1910s.'

🔓 The book is available via #OpenAccess: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/17059

#Histodons #Colonialism #Belgium #Portugal #Congo #SãoToméEPríncipe #Plantations #Cocoa #AgriculturalHistory

📖 The book 'Plantation Knowledge' includes a chapter by Marta Macedo that 'explores the deep entanglements established between São Tomé and the Congo through projects of cocoa plantations over the course of two decades, from the early 1890s to the early 1910s.'

🔓 The book is available via #OpenAccess: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/17059

#Histodons #Colonialism #Belgium #Portugal #Congo #SãoToméEPríncipe #Plantations #Cocoa #AgriculturalHistory

📖 The book 'Plantation Knowledge' includes a chapter by Marta Macedo that 'explores the deep entanglements established between São Tomé and the Congo through projects of cocoa plantations over the course of two decades, from the early 1890s to the early 1910s.'

🔓 The book is available via #OpenAccess: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/17059

#Histodons #Colonialism #Belgium #Portugal #Congo #SãoToméEPríncipe #Plantations #Cocoa #AgriculturalHistory

Nabowla Tasmania Lavender Fields Postcard
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#LavenderFields #Nabowla #Tasmania #AustralianPostcard #RuralLandscape #LavenderFarming #AgriculturalHistory #VintagePostcard #PurpleFields #Countryside #Australia

Der Historiker Peter Staudenmaier übt harte Kritik an einer neuen anthroposophisch finanzierten Studie über Faschismus und bio-dynamische Landwirtschaft: https://groups.io/g/waldorf-critics/message/34391

"For those looking for an honest reckoning with the biodynamic movement's past, there is still a long way to go."

#history #anthroposophy #biodynamics #agriculturalhistory #peterstaudenmaier #waldorfcritics #fascism #demeter #dachau

Der Historiker Peter Staudenmaier übt harte Kritik an einer neuen anthroposophisch finanzierten Studie über Faschismus und bio-dynamische Landwirtschaft: https://groups.io/g/waldorf-critics/message/34391

"For those looking for an honest reckoning with the biodynamic movement's past, there is still a long way to go."

#history #anthroposophy #biodynamics #agriculturalhistory #peterstaudenmaier #waldorfcritics #fascism #demeter #dachau

Der Historiker Peter Staudenmaier übt harte Kritik an einer neuen anthroposophisch finanzierten Studie über Faschismus und bio-dynamische Landwirtschaft: https://groups.io/g/waldorf-critics/message/34391

"For those looking for an honest reckoning with the biodynamic movement's past, there is still a long way to go."

#history #anthroposophy #biodynamics #agriculturalhistory #peterstaudenmaier #waldorfcritics #fascism #demeter #dachau

🌾 A primeira actividade da IHC Visiting Scholar, Lavinia Maddaluno (Università Ca' Foscari), será a conferência "Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop", a ter lugar na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal no dia 16 de Julho.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/rice-ersatz/

#Histodons #AgriculturalHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #Rice #LaviniaMaddaluno #OpenLecture #HistóriaDaAgricultura #Arroz #HistóriaAmbiental

🖥 Sugestão de serão:

Conferência de Miguel Carmo no ciclo “Terras e Paisagens no Sul”, organizado pela Câmara Municipal de Beja, sobre a degradação do solo e a fertilização em Portugal, numa intervenção que entrelaça a história do solo e a história agrícola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuLkqk8cYg

#Histodons #AgriculturalHistory #SoilHistory #EnvHist #Fertilization #Soils #Agriculture #Portugal #HistóriaAgrícola #HistóriaAmbiental #Solos #Fertilização

"From Farm to Freeway | LA Foodways | KCET"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAeQzWuPkU

#AgriculturalHistory #LosAngeles

USDA's National Agricultural Library currently has an online exhibit on the history of Farmers Markets (in the US, 20th and 21st c.)

https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/ipd/localfoods/exhibits/show/stands-and-markets/farmers-markets

#History #AgriculturalHistory

NEW BLOG POST.
DVD REVIEW: Tales From the Green Valley
In an old stone-built cottage experts recreate how life would have been in 1620, in the reign of James I of England.
#17thcentury #agriculture #agriculturalhistory #farmlife #review #blog #socialhistory #domestichistory
https://ukgenealogylinks.com/2023/01/15/dvd-review-tales-from-the-green-valley/