From Voles to Skirret Fries

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►http://whyfiles.org/2012/farming-native-american-style

The underground seedpods of the hog peanut (AKA mouse bean), were collected by prairie voles. These small mammals, which the Lakota called “mice,” cached the big seeds underground.

Lakota women found the caches with a stick and removed the seeds, Jones said, but “They always left a gift, dry berries, animal fat or corn. They would sing, ‘You have helped sustain my children during this coming winter, and we will not let your children go hungry.’ Their song echoed from the trees, and it seriously breaks my heart that my young children will never see that.”

Racines de chervis découpées et rangées par les campagnols :

▻http://www.foodforestfarm.com/get-the-dirt/from-voles-to-skirret-fries

Yesterday I went digging for skirret plants to pot up and sell in the nursery. I pulled back the mulch and what did I find, well, I didn’t find the nice rows of skirrets I’d planted, but giant piles of skirret roots! As you can see in the picture, our resident voles have a habit of collecting their food and piling it in caches for winter storage. At first I thought I had lost my inventory, then on further observation, realized that the voles had done me a favor by also piling the sprouting crowns, and organizing the edible roots for me to harvest and eat! The voles may have saved me an hour of digging and labor.

http://www.foodforestfarm.com/skirret%20vole%20cache.jpg

Les rats qui créent l’opportunité de sélectionner certains grains de maïs supposément meilleurs

A composite of early varieties originally developed by the late Fred Ashworth of St. Lawrence Nurseries and marketed by Johnny’s Selected Seeds starting in 1978. According to legend, Ashworth originally named his variety “Rat Selected” in honor of the rodents who broke into his seed storage room and alerted him to certain kernels that they preferred.

▻http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/search?item=516

Je rajoute l’idée entendue de faire récolter et trier les céréales par des fourmis

▻https://growingfruit.org/t/pawpaw-pollination-trick-bees-to-do-it/13246/9

https://growingfruit-images.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/f/7f1179c2ae54f09533d16469ad97b73595f660c8.jpg

Faire polliniser les asiminiers par des abeilles en mettant (chaque année) quelques gouttes de miel sur les fleurs