A Radical Seed-Breeding Project Could Help Southern Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

Photo caption: Zoe Adjonyoh, author of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen, stands in the field during a 2021 visit to see the okra variety trial. Photo courtesy of Chris Smith. Article by Daniel Walton. Civil Eats – April 18, 2023.

At first glance, Chris Smith’s modest farm plot outside Asheville, North Carolina, has nothing in common with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the powerful particle collider located on the border of France and Switzerland. On a chilly, overcast morning in early March, as Smith’s farm assistant, Leeza Regensburger, wrestles with an antiquated weed whacker […]

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