The magic of Legumes

THE LEGUME FAMILY A WONDER OF NATURE
Where would humans be with out Legumes. Probably no where.

Thanks to their unique ability to use nitrogen from the air to synthesize proteins they quickly became a very important supply for humans and mammals of protein were meat was scares.

How do these plants do it ...

They do it by establishing a symbiosis ( if you watched spider man 3 .. you saw a symbiotic creature... :) ) between a soil bacteria and their roots. The bacterias are called nitrogen fixing rhizobia and the legume builds a nodule it its roots were the bacteria can live....

In the nodule the bacteria gets exposed to air. And as you might know our atmosphere contains 75% Nitrogen.

Without getting into biochemical terms what the bacteria does is grab the nitrogen give it to the root of the LEGUME and the legume gives it some carbohydrates or sugars to grow ..... and they both are happy ...


If you wan to learn more let me know :)

Carrots in Northern Florida

A video I took last week at a carrot farm in northern Georgia. You can see the smoke from the forest fires in the background.

First Post

HI welcome to my blog. For many years I have been wanting to start my own blog and finally I have the guts to do so.

My blog is going to be about one me and my passions. As you can see by the title of my BLOG my main passion is AGRICULTURE.

SO As the title says feel free to ask anything you wish about AGRICULTURE and I will give you an answer, if I do not know it I will find the right person who will answer it for you.

SO TRY TO STUMP ME :)