Comment on White House Faith Office
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoI would think that farmers were experienced and smart enough to know which crops would hybridize and which don’t. They would not need the clergy to tell them that.
We don’t see farmers today getting farming advice from the church. They get it from other farmers. I don’t see any reason for it to be different back then.
I do see however that the church wanted to sound important and wise. So they wrote things down, but without having a full understanding, so a lot of the advice they wrote down is too simplistic.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
uh, they get it from the ag departments from their state/local universities. They didn’t have universities back then.
Also, while most farmers probably knew not to do hybrids back then, the consequences of loosing an entire year’s harvest of a stable crop would mean famine for the tribe. You can’t just ask for half of a neighboring village’s seed stock. It was important enough to make it a sin.