I enjoy the time I spend with those who love the smell of the soil and the solitude of hours alone in the fields, primarily quiet people of few words who are often mistaken as grumpy since the crop does not care what tone you take when talking to them.
During a recent trip to North Florida, I visited a peanut farmer down the road from my parents with just a few acres. The visit was a part of my real-world climate-smart education. I wanted to see how good peanuts are in taking nitrogen from the air to provide enrichment and nutrition to the plant and soil while simultaneously playing the role of a cover crop and a harvestable crop.
The result was nutrient-rich loam in fields rotating peanuts regularly versus those that did not in the same area—something the old Florida farmers have been doing for years to grow food with fewer inputs (costs).
With all the fancy high-tech things we are doing these days, it's good to see something simple like peanuts can be a tasty vegetable (legumes), carbon smart, low water user, and regenerative - go figure, the simple P&J of most childhoods could be all that.
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