Sentences with phrase «many wild plants»

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

People who know edible wild plants still garden for efficiency's sake, and similarly a lot of us could benefit from a discussion of growing our own bugs.

The wild plants, when cultivated, were susceptible to chile wilt, the fungal disease aggravated by too much water.

Here are some of my favorite wild plants... ones I think everyone should know how to identify.

Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped).

He recommended a few guidebooks: Samuel Thayer's Nature's Garden, John Kallas» Edible Wild Plants, and Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by Steve Brill.

Another wild plant, the piñon tree, was utilized to its fullest extent.

Is this one a newly cultivated or is it one of those rare wild plants?

By late June, the organic fields had 50 to 70 percent more species of wild plants than the conventional fields, with significantly more weeds and biomass.

Declines in populations of pollinators now threaten both the yields of major food crops and the survival of wild plant species.

Wild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and seed.

The limited availability and input of nitrogen, the application of mechanical and thermal weed control and more diverse crop rotations and a higher crop diversity lead to more favourable conditions for many wild plant species.

The tree, being a legume like peanuts, is nitrogen - fixing, so it serves as a host tree for other wild plants such as chiltepins.

If there were no more bees, 75 % of all economic plants, fruits and vegetables, 90 % of all wild plants and all forage crops would be affected.

A wild plant seed grows wherever it falls without being cared for.

Examples of wild plants include dandelions, daisies, buttercups, nettles and ivy.

We believe this is accomplished by actually spending time outdoors, with our hands in the dirt and feet on the ground, planting trees, clearing brush, finding frogs in a creek, making a meal out of wild plants, learning how to turn a piece of wood into an instrument, or creating natural dyes with berries.

«Many food security problems revolve around maintaining pollinator diversity to provide services to crops or wild plants and designing landscapes to provide living conditions for pollinators,» Biesmeijer says.

Insects, especially bees, help pollinate both food crops and wild plants.

The Snow Lotus Blue Tansy Oil is harvested from wild plants in Morocco, giving you an exceptional product.

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

In 2013, von Wettberg, and colleagues from Turkey and other countries, spent two months surveying parts of Turkey and Kurdistan, near the border of Syria, searching for the two wild plant species most closely related to domestic chickpeas.

Then they did extensive crossbreeding of these wild plants with domestic ones.

Many wild plants (unlike most cultivated crops) are frost tolerant.

Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

«For the past fifteen years a few Nature - lovers have been carrying on in this country an earnest campaign on behalf of the preservation of our native wildflowers and other wild plants.

The researchers previously found evidence that Ohalo II's residents were grinding wheat, barley and oats, and also gathering other ancient cereals, but believed these activities involved harvesting wild plants.

Researchers at the University of Georgia, working with the International Peanut Genome Initiative, have discovered that a wild plant from Bolivia is a «living relic» of the prehistoric origins of the cultivated peanut species.

Moreover, some Indigenous people rely on harvesting wild plants and animals, and irrigating crops threatens that (Biological Conservation, doi.org/tj2).

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that humans are hardwired for biophilia, or a love of wild plants and animals, and that putting them back in touch with the environment could resurrect that feeling.

Wright's conclusion is at odds with the usual idea of how people made the transition from gathering wild plants to cultivating them.

Today, the Royal Botanic Gardens» Millenium Seed Bank receives its billionth seed (a bamboo species), adding to the largest wild plant seed stores in the world.

With the loss of so many of our wild places and their wild flora, garden - worthy forms of wild plants are even thinner on the ground.

The origin of many flowers in the garden is rather obscure: some can be presumed to be simple genetic variants of wild plants, while others are the result of hybridisation of original wild species.

It is apparently not easy to quantify the part played by British wild plants in our gardens, according to Ray Woods of the Countryside Council for Wales.

In their paper, they highlighted the need for more monitoring and enforcement, as well as research to better understand the impact of trade on wild plant populations and the actors involved in illegal trade.

The study is part of a larger field of research that aims to understand when, where and how humans turned wild plants and animals into the crops, pets and livestock we know today.

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

By putting dirt from the house floors and rubbish heaps in her flotation tank, Near has found that the residents of Çatalhöyük were energetic collectors of wild plants as well.

Archaeologists can date that switch by distinguishing remains of wild plants and animals from those of domesticated ones in prehistoric garbage dumps.

The last Ice Age was coming to an end, mammoths and other large mammals romped around North America, and humans were beginning to settle down and cultivate wild plants.

For most of our history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and foraged for wild plants.

The arrival of tree bumblebees could be hugely beneficial to us by absorbing parasite pressure from our native species, as well as helping to pollinate wild plants and crops.»

Hunter - gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources, like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild plants and animals they obtain each day.

While farmers concentrate on high - carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter - gatherers provides more protein and a bettter balance of other nutrients.