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Every Seed Has a Biography · Eat the Sun

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Four component crops, each photographed on its own. The blend itself is not photographed yet — and its composition rotates weekly.
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How we grade evidence Established Well-supported Debated Root Life reflection Open question Contested claims stay labeled — cultural memory deserves honest footnotes. An empty chapter stays empty until the research is in.

A Seed’s Journey

Follow the story era by era — or jump to the chapter that calls you.

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The migration map

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Listen to it · Sonic Harvest

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The field table

Compare the crops

Sixty-eight crops, their families, flavours and growing times. Set any four side by side, or read down a single column to see which crops share an origin, a season or a pot.

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[ grow times are seed-to-harvest ranges from our growing records. Prices are à-la-carte Shop prices: exact SKUs for sunflower & mushrooms, estimated per-4oz for the rest; members get every crop in the weekly box. ]

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