This story is dedicated to city kids who've never thought about the choices a farmer makes when picking and planting crops for you to eat.


This is Ted and Buddy. Ted is a farmer living in Europe in the year 150 A.D.
That is almost 2000 years ago

Ted's family has been collecting and eating wild cabbage from the fields around their house for over 100 years. Each season, Ted collects seeds from the plants with the largest leaves because they produce the most food.


This is Wilma, she is Ted's descendant living at the same house 400 years later, in the year 550 A.D.
The crops that Wilma grows look different from Ted's


Since Ted and his descendants only collected seeds from the dense, flowery plants, over time the plants changed in appearance and taste. This process is called artificial selection.
Ted's Crop Wilma's Crop


This is Frank, he is a direct descendant of Wilma and Ted living on the same farm, growing the same crops, but 500 years in the future.
Just like Wilma and Ted, Frank only collects and plants the seeds from plants that he likes - especially ones that taste good or produce more edible food per plant.




Those green seeds came from better plants, so I wont even bother collecting black ones.
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This story is dedicated to city kids who've never thought about the choices a farmer makes when picking and planting crops for you to eat.


This is Ted and Buddy. Ted is a farmer living in Europe in the year 150 A.D.
That is almost 2000 years ago

Ted's family has been collecting and eating wild cabbage from the fields around their house for over 100 years. Each season, Ted collects seeds from the plants with the largest leaves because they produce the most food.


This is Wilma, she is Ted's descendant living at the same house 400 years later, in the year 550 A.D.
The crops that Wilma grows look different from Ted's
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