Positive news: The Great Return of "Forgotten Crops"

 

The Global Renaissance of Ancient Grains

Across the globe – from South America, through Africa, to Europe – farmers and scientists are joining forces to bring back so-called orphan crops (forgotten crops) into mass cultivation.

These are ancient, unmodified varieties of grains and pseudocereals, such as amaranth, millet, sorghum, and archaic varieties of oats.

Why is this a breakthrough? For decades, these ancient plants were pushed to the sidelines by big industry, which preferred mass-produced, processed wheat and maize. Now, it turns out that these primordial grains are incredibly resilient to climate change, do not require artificial chemicals, and their nutritional profile is pure evolutionary perfection.

What does this mean for us? Humanity is beginning to realise that monocultures and artificially forced food are a dead end. Returning to these grains is a return to pure, structural starch that nourishes the human microbiome in the most perfect way.

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