Eco-Growing Newly Discovered Fruits, Herbs & Vegetables for Fun or Profit
Did you know there’s an exotic melon with flesh like lime gelatin dessert (only better)? Have you ever heard of the taradi vine with its edible tubers? How about the delicious Shopova fruit? Ever grown, eaten, seen, or baked with emmer, an ancient Egyptian grain with up to 30% protein and no pests or disease, and which even inhibits its own weeds?
Backyard mini-farm home businesses, and those with small acreage, can search out and supply newly discovered and exotic crops for your family’s pleasure or for profit.
An estimated 20,000 plants in the world supply humankind with food. Of these, about 2000 have been cultivated, and of these, only 150 are offered on a commercial scale. For example, in melons alone, there are dozens of incredible sweet varieties on the brink of extinction, but with seeds available to the gardener or market grower. Many have heard that there are hundreds of heirloom tomatoes alone, including a delicious one shaped like an accordion! But that’s just the tip of our earth’s new emerging Garden. The world is amidst a sustainable renaissance to restore the earth as a garden of abundance, and to rediscover these and other lost or locally and naturally improved crops. Micro eco-farms (backyard to small-acreage sustainable mini-farms) are often the first to offer these new crops to an eager market happy to support a food supply free of centralized corporate control and GMOs (stands for genetically modified organisms created in labs, where genes of species not intended to be mixed according to the universe’s blueprint are forced into new organisms).
Many are joining this new movement, and the possibilities are almost endless.
