Seedling Desert Sweet Potatoes being potted on for a graduate research project, with tasty ‘tap root’ swellings already visible. These are an ancient and still popular food for indigenous people living on country in arid Australia. A future food for the rest of us? Quite possibly a regenerative agricultural crop in marginal, dry areas in the not so distant future; we’ll keep you posted on @ambrosia_jess trials here at Burnley through summer #ipomoeacostata #regenerativeagriculture #futurefoods #novelcrops #panc #indigenousfoods #nativeplantsofaustralia #desertplants #seedlings #plantexperiment #plantpropagation #perennialvegetables #bushfoods #indigenousagriculture #ipomoea #convolvulaceae

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