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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
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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.
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se times
The first Jesup Wagon, a touring demonstration of agri-
cultural tools and techniques, was conceived, equipped,
and given a curriculum by polymath agronomist George
Washington Carver in 1906. It was the precursor of County
Extensions. Public domain photo
nurtured a concern for those
who worked the land on the
tightest of margins. “Many
thousands of dollars are being
spent every year here in the
South for fertilizers that prof-
it the user very little, while
Nature’s choicest fertilizer is
going to waste.”
A most subtle turn of his
beliefs led to a surprising in— ,
dictment of agribusiness’ fer— r
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the universe would be
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they imply nature cannot
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on fields end up in our bodies.
' “Nature has been so lav-
ish in its wealth of native food
stuffs for both man and beast
that we could not only live but
thrive if all of our cultivated
plants Were destroyed,” he
wrote in the Montgomery Ad-
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