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Garden Master
This was a fun little exploration of a local heirloom in what actually may be a similar climate to my corner of the world, although it is in the Trans-Himalayas. It also fits in with the legume harvest about to happen with many of the TEG gardeners 
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phys.org
The link in the article to the study by the Stanford researchers and published in Science is worth some reading time also and is not too complex until they get down into the weeds in later paragraphs.
Steve
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The benefits of traditional Himalayan agriculture—a nearly forgotten variety of black peas outperforms cash crops
In the high-elevation desert region of the Trans-Himalayas, most people farm for a living. In the 1980s, they largely transitioned from subsistence-based to market-oriented production of commercial crops, such as green peas (Pisum sativum L.), they could sell to other states in India.
The link in the article to the study by the Stanford researchers and published in Science is worth some reading time also and is not too complex until they get down into the weeds in later paragraphs.
Steve
