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Crops for justice, empire, & tax resistance

Eleanor Konik
Feb 28, 2022
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photo of purple potato flowers with yellow stamens by Keith Weller via wikipedia & the usda

I've been thinking a lot about the farming community I wrote about in my flash fiction story The Laundress & the Fungal Growth. Specifically, I've been thinking about what they might farm, and how it might impact local trade.

I mentioned beans, walnuts and soapwort, and came up with a fantastical fungus, I haven't done a lot of thinking about their crops…

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