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      <h2>Potato Tech</h2>
      <i>31 December, 2017</i>
      <p>I shared lunch with some permaculture friends on Christmas day and they gifted me some of their seed potatoes. Today I planted them. Having seen how the plants thrived in my friend’s garden, and having learning more about potato diversity while I was in Peru, I’m excited to experience my first attempt growing them. As I do so, I extend the line of humyns who have woven relationships with this plant over thousands and thousands of years; an honour and a privilege.</p>
      <p>Seeing the potatoes like this is freakin rad! I got to appreciate the potato plant as an energy capture and storage technology: harness solar energy, grow a battery, redeploy solar panels from that battery months later. Beautiful.</p>
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        <img src="/plants/potato_battery.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" />
        <figcaption>Warning: battery is reaching critical levels.</figcaption>
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        <img src="/plants/potato_sprout.jpeg" style="width: 100%;" />
        <figcaption>The courageous potato perseveres in search of the light.</figcaption>
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