Seasonal pulse

Moday ride: The second cut of alfalfa hereabouts is being bailed. Like most things, there is more to it than one might at first assume. Reading that Wikipedia link, I was struck by the information that the plant exhibits an autotoxicity phenomenon. There is so much to learn and so little time remaining. The development of crop rotation, the solution to the autotoxicity issue, has been known for at least 6,000 years. That must have been hard-won knowledge. Observing the Sabbath of the Land (schmita) year must have been even harder in times of scarcity.

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