Rolemodels- George Washington Carver, was an American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor who revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States. Days and years for his birth are unknown; he is believed to have been born before slavery was abolished in Missouri in January 1864.
George Washington Carver is said to have discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes(a biofuel), ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain.
The techniques he suggested where ahead of their time in taking sustainability into account in planting crops. The goal being to not have the one crop plantations and the ability to have farmers grow crops for their own use and that had marketable uses while being a better farming practice for the land.
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