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Carver: A man ahead of the his week, as I raked ' Ttwo hogsheads of dead leaves into pens for composting and produc— ing leaf mold, it was nice to discover that a mainstream agronomist recommended this wintertime activity over a century ago. George Wash— ington Carver was a lot more than the “peanut man” to which he’s been boiled down. Sure, he found over 300 uses for peanuts. In 1921, he testified before Congress so capably that, initially granted 10 minutes, he was given “un- limited time”to expound a the properties of and purposes for the peanut. ' For all that, Carver ob-\ served that 17 years after his first peanut bulletin, few were being grown in Macon County, Georgia. Further- more, most of his peanut inventions arrested at the experimental stage, not even graduating to pilot programs and testing. , The same could be said of his other astonishing dis- coveries: a synthetic rubber, developed with Henry Ford, made from goldenrod; an- other rubber synthesized from sweet potato latex and pig— ments made from Alabama clay that attracted the inter- est of investors, but ultimate- ly came to nothing. ~ “I am not a finisher,” Carver said, “I am a blazer of trails, new trails. Little of my work is in books. Others must RLEEX FETHlERE PENINSULA PEBMAGULTURE take up the various trails of truth and carry them on.” This truth he spoke of was a revelation from God. This faith-science syncretism was deeply confusing to many in the establishment, as when Carver proclaimed “all of na— ture is a vast broadcasting system” for God’s voice. Reverence for the natural environment came from his childhood walks in Missouri’s forests, in which he discov- ered an interconnectedness of all life. He later called it an “organic unity,” adopting a botanist mentor’s descrip- tion. This same distinguished botanist said Carver was “a brilliant student, the best col- lector and the best scientific observer I have ever known.” This observer saw no dis- junction between the built environment and the natural one, advising poor farmers to supplement their diets with wild foods in bulletins like and Peace,” to help support the war effort through forag- ing, and “Some Choice Wild Vegetables That Make Fine Foods” to convince rural housewives that their farm meals could be delightfully provisioned from just beyond the tree line. And why should foods for wild animals be any differ- ent from those for the domes- ticated? Carver encouraged feeding livestock with acorns, which has long been used in Spain to produce the'finest hams. Perhaps he was also aware that it benefits oak trees, both with pig manure and by breaking the pest cycle of acorn weevils. Organic unity was a driv- , ing principle even as he ‘ . worked at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Carver had been trained to revere inorganic, chemical fer- tilizers, and his department worked hand—in-glove with industries that produced and bureaucrats that promoted them. He conducted his share of trials and wrote reports dutifully. . But as his career pro- gressed he developed a per- sonal preference for organic materials such as swamp muck, forest leaves and pine straw to enrich soils. These amendments, available to even the poorest tenant farm— ers, constituted the “natural fertilizer factory” of forests. In soil building, he canhanrr ,. RUGGED FLEX . 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