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Podcast: Patented: History of Inventions
Episode: Eco Farming
Description: George Washington Carver is well known to Americans as the Peanut Man. It’s been written of him that ‘peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination’.If that sounds a bit ridiculous, it’s because it is.George Washington Carver was far more radical and innovative than ‘the guy who did stuff with peanuts’.At a time when the scientific consensus was pushing farmers to use more and more chemicals and machinery on their lands, Carver urged them to learn how to farm in harmony with nature.<...