Wouldn't it be wonderful if a modest Kickstarter offertory resulted in the means to employ someone to translate Henri Desplanques' book mentioned in this article?
http://www.foodinitaly.org/blog/tag/coltura-promiscua/
There are pretty few books around about centuries-old functional polycultures, let alone one in a climate zone similar to large areas of the US!
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