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RE: Amaranth: The Immortal Grain // Plants for Every Homestead
I remember a teacher of my online PDC report, that he was planting millet (that I guess is similar to amaranth?) randomly in his garden, to attrackt birds. They would leave their droppings, eat some insects on the way and leave other crops alone, that would be endangered to be "attacked" as well. He took it to a level, that he called millet a nitrogenfixer becaue of the ammount of nitrogen rich droppings, the birds would leave :).
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Yes! I LOVE THAT! Fantastic point! And i love the spin on it being a nitrogen fixer. haha!
we had some millet in our bird feeder that the birds dropped around the property and it came up too. I think your permaculture teacher is onto something - Of course, sunflowers will also really attract them in, too (and so many more things). Love the layers of interconnection and benefits.
You are so right @mountainjewel. I was just reminded about what Dwarakanath Jnaneswar said about millet, because the seeds are so similar to me.