We honor, especially now during Black History Month, An Imhotep Genius: George Washington Carver. Dr. Carver was An Artist, Spiritual Mystic, Chemist, Botanist, Professor and Founder of Tuskegee Institute and "The Father of Organic Farming." Born into US Colonial enslavement in nearby Missouri in the early 1860s, Carver as a little boy was set free by the Civil War.
Black people were not allowed in most public schools, so Carver walked to a school for black children 10 miles away. He rented a room from Mariah Watkins, who told him, "You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people."
Her words made a great impression. At age 13, he moved to Fort Scott, Kansas to attend an academy, but after witnessing a black man killed by a white mob, Carver left the city.
He finally received a high school diploma in Minneapolis, Kansas, and applied to several colleges. He was accepted at one in Highland, Kansas, but the school rejected him when they saw he was black.
In 1891, he became the first black student at Iowa State University, earning his master's degree in science. After being the first black professor at Iowa State in 1896, he moved on to teach and research at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for 47 years.
Years of growing cotton had depleted farms in Alabama. Carver taught crop rotation by introducing alternative cash crops for farmers to improve the soil. He taught other farmers how to add nitrogen to soils by practicing systematic crop rotation with legumes.
While others used chemical farming to increase nitrogen artificially with anhydrous ammonia, Dr. Carver's techniques by rotating cereal grass crops with certified organic soybeans and alfalfa legumes, replenish the nitrogen in the soil taken up by our certified organic cereal grasses.
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