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Adapting to Change

few years ago, I wrote about losing a big chunk of a basil crop to mildew one particularly humid spring and summer. We resolved to procure many different types of basil from many different seed sources, and mix their seed with the seed of the few plants we grew that year that didn’t succumb to mildew.

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