30/05/2026
Apparently there are or were nearly 4,000 varieties of potatoes in the world. That blew our minds too. 🥔
Over thousands of years, indigenous farming communities cultivated potatoes adapted to different climates, soils, altitudes, flavours, textures, and nutritional needs — long before monoculture reduced food into just a handful of commercial varieties.
Many of those communities also became the protectors of that biodiversity, preserving seeds, knowledge, and farming traditions across generations despite industrial agriculture steadily replacing diversity with uniformity.
What we eat today is only a fraction of what biodiversity once looked like.
Food was never meant to be uniform.
And maybe flavour was never the only thing we lost.
