Where Our Food Comes From mushroom garden Hiring & managing labor

Hiring & managing labor

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As a practical guide

of Lloyd and his wife Lesley’s owner-built home and garden

Where Our Food Comes From mushroom garden Hiring & managing laborThe future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard