#georgewashingtoncarver

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[cartermagazine]

Today In History Dr. George Washington Carver, scientist and discoverer of over 300 products from the peanut, was successful in getting a Branch Agricultural Experiment Station and Agricultural School at Tuskegee Normal School on this date February 15, 1897. Born a slave on a Missouri farm in 1865, Carver became the first black student and the first black faculty member at what is now Iowa State University. The well-respected botanist led the bacterial laboratory work in the Systematic Botany Department. But at the urging of Booker T. Washington, Carver moved to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to serve as the school’s director of agriculture. He used his agricultural research to help black farmers become more self-sufficient and less reliant on cotton, the major cash crop of the South. Carver developed numerous products and processes that expanded the range of Southern agriculture. At Tuskegee, Carver developed his crop rotation method, which alternated nitrate-producing legumes such as peanuts and corn with cotton, which depletes the soil of its nutrients. His innovations have been credited with the South’s economic survival in the early part of the 20th century. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #georgewashingtoncarver #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke https://www.instagram.com/p/CorgQYeur9n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[ipgbook]

In celebration of #blackhistorymonth we bring you @chireviewpress George Washington Carver for Kids with 21 Activities. This latest addition to the #ForKids series features one of the greatest inventors of the 20th century who not only brought us over 300 uses for peanuts, but was known as the ‘plant doctor’, was close friends with Henry Ford, and cared so much about the philanthropic applications of his that he turned down a 6-figure job offer from Thomas Edison. The handy book also has 21 activities to accompany and understand Carver’s discoveries and contributions that includes brewing ginger tea, creating paints using items found in nature, growing sweet potatoes, and building a compost bin for your kitchen. Celebrate this #blackhero with is this month! 👨🏿‍🔬🥜 #kidlit #stem #steam #kidsbooks #bookshelf #readtolearn #blackhistory #georgewashingtoncarver #peanuts #peanutman #blackhistorymonthchallenge #forteachers #activitiesforkids #bookstagram #kidstagram #teachersofinstagram #librarylove #currentlyreading #africanamerican #bookish #shelfie (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZeymFH_-4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lxlim1hi10wz

[seedkeeping]

Peanut plants have one blooming flower at a time. The flower is mainly self-pollinated, but some types of bees help out sometimes too. The bloom will lower closer to the ground and once pollinated, will form a peg a week or two later, which will grow towards the soil and penetrate the earth. The peg (containing the ripening ovary) will then turn sideways/horizontal and enlarge into the peanut 🥜 we know and love. This is a subterranean fruit. In other news, peanuts are from central South America, and were brought to West Africa by the Spanish, and later from there to North America during the transatlantic slave trade. Peanuts were widely adopted by West Africans who had already domesticated the Bambara Groundnut, which is another nutritious legume that also grows underground fruits on pegs. In the US, George Washington Carver developed hundreds of products and regenerative agricultural practices using peanuts (as well as sweet potatoes, soybeans, black eyed peas, and more) as a way to help poor Southern farmers heal and prosper after the ravages of cotton production. #blackpeanut #arachishypogaea #peanutflower #seedkeeping #peanut #georgewashingtoncarver #seedsaving #legumes

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#Repost @pbs_1914 ・・・ Happy Carver Day!! #pbs1914 #brotherhoodfirst #georgewashingtoncarver #pbs1914 #pbs

[cartermagazine]

Today In History Dr. George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans. He is believed to have been born the month of January in 1864. Dr. Carver discovered over 300 products from peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which aided nutrition for farm families. Dr. Carver wanted to improve the lot of “the man farthest down,” the poor, one-horse farmer at the mercy of the market and chained to land exhausted by cotton. Unlike other agricultural researchers of his time, Dr. Carver saw the need to devise practical farming methods for this kind of farmer. He wanted to coax them away from cotton to such soil-enhancing, protein-rich crops as soybeans and peanuts and to teach them self-sufficiency and conservation. He achieved this through an innovative series of free, simply-written brochures that included information on crops, cultivation techniques, and recipes for nutritious meals. He also urged the farmers to submit samples of their soil and water for analysis and taught them livestock care and food preservation techniques. Dr. Carver took a holistic approach to knowledge, which embraced faith and inquiry in a unified quest for truth. Carver also believed that commitment to a larger reality is necessary if science and technology are to serve human needs rather than the egos of the powerful. His belief in service was a direct outgrowth and expression of his wedding of inquiry and commitment. One of his favorite sayings was: “It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.” CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #carter #cartermagazine #georgewashingtoncarver #blackhistory #staywoke #blackhistorymonth #history #blacktwitter https://www.instagram.com/p/CnMQ9zoO1gr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cartermagazine]

He revolutionized the field of agriculture, developing tons of techniques to maintain soil health and foster crop growth. He also made significant contributions to botany, industrial engineering, medicine, and botanical illustration, among other endeavors. His name is George Washington Carver. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #georgewashingtoncarver #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke https://www.instagram.com/p/ChcFvjGucdR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=