cow pies
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On the farm, people grow culturally relevant produce like terere, kunde and managu — amaranth, cowpeas leaves and African nightshade.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023
Planting cover crops such as cowpeas and vetch, for example, boosts soil carbon on average each year by one-third of a ton per hectare, according to a 2015 meta-analysis in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2022
Along with not tilling several of his fields, five years ago, Basinger introduced cover crops - cowpeas, flax and turnips.
From Washington Times • Feb. 14, 2020
“New World beans have natural resistance to the weevils we have in the Americas, but if you take an Old World bean like cowpeas, they don’t have that natural resistance,” Riley said.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2019
Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
