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\nAlan Kapuler: Scientist, Organic Seed Breeder and Modern Artist\n

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\nFor those who know or know of him, there's another facet to Alan Kapuler's aka Mushroom — life. He's been painting modern art that reflects the major challenges of our times for almost 50 years. A brief summary of his background in...\nFor those who know or know of him, there's another facet to Alan Kapuler's aka Mushroom — life. He's been painting modern art that reflects the major challenges of our times for almost 50 years. A brief summary of his background in science and as an organic seed breeder: Trained as a molecular biologist, in the 60’s Kapuler became disenchanted with the whole idea of making poisons to control weeds and pests and for their use during the Vietnam war. As a lifelong hippie that began then, he turned toward the growing of food while living in a commune. After-all, he says, someone had to grow the food if they were to eat. This led to a lifetime of work developing open-pollinated, open source organic seeds ideally suited for an organic farming and gardening regiment. He built a spacious greenhouse—96' x 36'w x 16'h—23 years ago to test what tropic and semi-tropical plants (bananas, citrus, etc.) could be grown in temperate climates. There he also grows a variety of the Andean root plants such as Yacon, Mashua and Oca that were once a healthy staple of the Native American diet. His boundless scientific mind arranges the widely diverse plants into a kinship garden layout, a scientifically accurate way to visually represent their place in the evolutionary tree of life.\n
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2017
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bob dylan, modern art, peace, painting, weapons, love, time, musicians
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