Percy Schmeiser

Percy Schmeiser

male, 78 years old (Canada)
Canadian of German descent, farmer, monsanto, bruno, breeding, plant breeding…crops
Percy Schmeiser is a farmer and seed developer from Western Canada that was involved in a legal battle with Monsanto on farmers' rights versus...
Eliot Coleman

Eliot Coleman

male, 70 years old
Brooksville, greenhouse, crops, Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming, National Organic Program, The New Organic Grower
Eliot Coleman (1938-) is an American farmer, author, agricultural researcher and educator, and a proponent of organic farming. His 1989 book, "The...
David Fairchild

David Fairchild

male, deceased (1954)
stratford, Dates, Kansas State College of Agriculture, David Grandison Fairchild, The World Was my Garden, exotic plants…crops
David Grandison Fairchild (April 7 1869 - August 6 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the...

Nongqawuse

female, deceased (1898)
settler, Xhosa, cattle, Gcaleka, ancestors, crops
Nongqawuse was the Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies led to a millennialist movement that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing crisis of...
Jimmy Boyd

Jimmy Boyd

male, 70 years old
film actor, Texas Jim Lewis, West Texas, crops, from McComb, Mississippi, hitchhiking
Jimmy Boyd is an American singer, musician, and actor. Jimmy Boyd was born in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi. In 1941 his father, Leslie...