On a Michiana Homestead — OSSI
Wonderful Words from the Wizard of Horticulture
As we are planning our fall planted winter grain trials, I came across a 1926 quote by the "Wizard of Horticulture" Luther Burbank and though we are merely stewards of the seeds, it resonates: "What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe; and grains of enormously increased productiveness, whose fat kernels are filled with more and better nourishment, a veritable...