{"id":2344,"date":"2021-05-10T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:06:40","slug":"homegrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Homegrown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more curious my home-grown vegetables look, the quicker I run for my sketchbook. Pulling up carrots is a joy, another rite of spring. Below, a bunch of Scarlet Nantes planted last fall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1504 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots.jpg\" alt=\"garden_carrots\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots.jpg 800w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots-510x671.jpg 510w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots-610x803.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mod\">\n<div class=\"_eFb\">\n<div class=\"_mr kno-fb-ctx\"><em><span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">Daucus carota subsp. sativus,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tasty, nutritious&#8230; much more flavor in a crooked homegrown carrot than the beauties from the store. People have been growing carrots in the garden for a long time: here, the &#8220;garden&#8221; carrot, in a 515 AD version of Dioscorides\u2019 first century AD work (with side roots!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1508\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1508\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1508\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gardencarrot_julianaaniciacodex.jpg\" alt=\"gardencarrot_JulianaAniciaCodex\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden carrot, from Juliana Alicia Codex, 515 AD<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A fascinating story of evolution from wild carrot ancestor, to early cultivation in the Iranian Plateau five thousand years ago, in recipes and medicines around the world, colored purple, white, yellow, and then: orange.<\/p>\n<p>A gold-mine of carrot history: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrotmuseum.co.uk\/history.html\">http:\/\/www.carrotmuseum.co.uk\/history.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more curious my home-grown vegetables look, the quicker I run for my sketchbook. Pulling up carrots is a joy, another rite of spring. Below, a bunch of Scarlet Nantes planted last fall. Daucus carota subsp. sativus,\u00a0 Tasty, nutritious&#8230; much more flavor in a crooked homegrown carrot than the beauties from the store. People have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,247,157,312],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-botanical","tag-journal","tag-sketchbook-2","tag-vegetable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/garden_carrots.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}