#scurvey

I think I’m not the first to post this, so sorry if I’m stealing someone’s idea, (I'm like 90% sure i saw this online the other day while i was drunk, but i can't find it up anywhere mutrals help), and it's very funny to me that crop-rotation is like the societal version of scurvy: where the symptoms are horrifically poignant and poetic, and the cure is just so simple it’s dumb. You over-used the land untrusted to your stewardship, you ravaged nature, you took and took and took to feed your own interests until the very land itself could give no more, until the soil that fed you turned sour and rejected the plough, until your crops turned to ashes in your mouth because of your hunger, avarice and hubris. Oh sinner, you must now at last reap that which you have sown! Or just grow a bean or something idk.

Did you know that oranges do not spoil easily and are full of vitamin C? During the years of world exploration by Europeans, sailors planted orange and other citrus trees along trade routes to prevent scurvy which is a disease that develops from a deficiency of vitamin C. The next ship to come along would reap the benefits.

I had this dream that I was a kickass pirate and was kinda queen of the sea. Wanna know why , it wasn't because of my bitchin fencing skills , nope or because of my awesome hat. Oranges! I had a secret ration of oranges! So me and my crew never got scurvy! And that ladies and gents is how I became queen of the sea.