#Seed028: Tradition and the Fallacy of Romance
On caricatures, continuity, and learning from the past
Cultura promiscua was a form of agriculture adopted by early Romans where they “planted a multistory canopy of olives, grapes, cereals, and fodder crops.”1 Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome, is said to have offered an acre to each Roman citizen for subsistence farming. In that tradition, Thomas Jefferson, wrote “cultivators of the earth are the most…
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