Abstract
A little known irony about Thomas Jefferson and his agrarian ideal: successful farm ownership during his presidency was entirely dependent on seed sharing.
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Ibid.
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Carolan, M.S. (2018). Putting Shared Technologies to Work. In: The Food Sharing Revolution. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-887-9_6
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