a true monoculture ( in two fields at least )

the no til bean field by the supermarket is looking like a healthy field to me...

the individual plants that make up the population are looking well too and they all seem to have multiple blooms active, or on the way...

unlike the field behind the big box stores ( which is in beans this season as well...which is what it was last year...farmer brown has skipped a rotation and one has to wonder if, given the tariff situation that is brewing, dense yellow #2 wouldn't have been a better choice ) which has rows choked with native plants ( those some would call "weeds" )...

the ones at the supermarket field are reasonably clear...

not the edges of the field however...

and out in the berm there are a multitude of seeds coming along in various stages of development that could find their way west into the field...dna is relentless...

despite the fact that this once green volunteer corn plant on the edge of the field has withered...

the rest of the dense volunteers...close to the edge ( down by the river ) of the field and those more central to it seem to be robust, if completely surrounded by a sea of beans...a contrast in fields a few miles apart...uncharacteristically planted in the same crop...a breach in the bi-polar monoculture at the south end of the inland sea...what next? industrial organics?