the.com/alfalfa
the plant whose roots dig fifteen feet down to drink water nobody else can reach
means A leafy legume widely grown as livestock feed and harvested for hay, prized for its deep roots and protein-rich foliage.
from From Spanish 'alfalfa', borrowed from Arabic 'al-faṣfaṣa' — 'the fresh fodder' or 'best kind of fodder' — with the Arabic definite article 'al-' fused on, as in so many words Spanish absorbed during centuries of Moorish presence. The plant itself is older still, native to the Near East and carried west across the Mediterranean, so the word traveled the same roads as the crop.
- deep diver
- Roots can plunge over 15 meters underground
- old timer
- Cultivated since ancient Persia, over 2000 years ago
- name origin
- Arabic for father of all foods
- nitrogen factory
- Fixes its own fertilizer from the air
- sprout fame
- Same plant fills your salad and your livestock
alfalfa sprouts recall 2014 — fda recall of salmonella-contaminated sprouts from multiple producers
alfalfa in middle east — saudi arabia irrigated massive alfalfa farms in the desert until banned in 2016 due to water scarcity