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The Town that Ate its Seed Corn: EVERYTHING Compounds

Podcast: LifeBlood · LifeBlood

Opublikowano: 2026-09-07

LifeBlood: There was once a prosperous farming town with a peculiar tradition: every harvest, they took some of their very best corn and locked it away. They called it seed corn. Then someone asked a perfectly reasonable question: Why are we keeping perfectly good food in a barn when people could eat it today? So they ate some. Nothing bad happened. In fact, things got better. Until decades later, when the town found itself facing a mysterious shortage no expert could quite explain. This episode explores compounding, second and...