Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Factoid of the day

I'm trying to gradually watch the streaming lectures of ancient horticulture. LINK I'm up to lesson ten...

today's lecture explains biblical references to horticulture and what they really mean to those who work with crops.pdfhere.

the factoid learned was that Amos was a fig gasher: they used special knives to make a hole in figs to force them to ripen...
moreHERE.

the previous lecture included an ancient writing about the argument between the hoe and the plow.

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