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15 Feb ’12
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I would like to try some of the originals
Next time you bite into a slice of watermelon or a cob of corn, consider this: These familiar fruits and veggies didn't always look and taste this way.
Genetically modified foods, or GMOs, inspire strong reactions nowadays, but humans have been tweaking the genetics of our favorite produce for millennia.
While GMOs may involve splicing genes from other organisms (such as bacteria) to give plants desired traits — like resistance to pests, selective breeding is a slower process whereby farmers select and grow crops with those traits over time.
From bananas to eggplant, here are some of the foods that looked totally different before humans first started growing them for food.
6 Oct ’15
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We shoot for heirloom seeds for the garden and we only put in heirloom fruit trees. When it comes to the fruit people tell us it doesn't look like the stuff at the store...we try to explain we don't use chemicals and the old varieties are different and unmodified.
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jonathco, K, groinkick15 Feb ’12
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Fedco seeds always has a huge tree sale every spring up here, need to hit it up this year to replace the trees that I drove ov.... I mean that didn't make it due to winter damage.
3 Nov ’12
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I like the way you said that. "winter damage"
I need to come up with a better substitute for "weed wacker incident". Any ideas?
6 Oct ’15
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groinkick said
I like the way you said that. "winter damage"I need to come up with a better substitute for "weed wacker incident". Any ideas?
No Way GK...it's exactly that a "weed wacker incident"...lol...we all have been there with a tree or flowers or vinyl siding.
15 Feb ’12
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groinkick said
I like the way you said that. "winter damage"I need to come up with a better substitute for "weed wacker incident". Any ideas?
I checked my security cameras and it isn't on video so I'm sticking with the it didn't happen!
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