Hold That Thought
Hold That Thought
Washington University in St. Louis
Ancient Crops of the Midwest
10 minutes Posted Oct 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm.
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Dr. Gayle Fritz decribes the Eastern Agricultural Complex, a group of crops grown thousands of years ago in what is now the eastern and midwestern U.S. These foods, which included a domesticated relative of quinoa no longer in existence, were grown before the arrival of corn and beans to North America.