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Oikos Tree Crops
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- We are about environmental health
- There are over 15,000 species of plants that have been used for food by man. Only 150 of these are commercially cultivated. There are over 10,000 apple varieties. There is only a few dozen that are commercially grown. All new varieties come from seeds. This is true with annual plants as well as trees and shrubs. If you are interested in creating, preserving and expanding the limits of new food plants then having trees and shrubs grown from seed is the only way to increase genetic diversity. It doesn't matter whether it is one tree near your home or a thousand in the wild. The genetic basis of agriculture lies in wild and unimproved plants with large genetic variation. Each plant creates many new opportunities for humans and sometimes unintentionally for wildlife as well. Nature is not based on native or non-native. It is based on the ecology of the plants and what animals will find it useful besides man. What new niches will this plant create? This is the yardstick to measure environmental health. Think of it as an evolutionary play in an ecological theatre. The lead actors will always change with an ever-increasing cast.
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