Maggie's Farm

The concept of plants having 'feelings' is hardly new, just to note.

Back in '72 the renown organic gardener Jerry Baker published a book called "Plants Are Like People" which contained a number of very interesting experiments. He'd hook up electrodes to various plants and measure how they reacted to his own pain and happiness, and, of course, how they reacted to being "decapitated" -- to use a word from the article.

The details are a little fuzzy since it's been 35 years since I read the book, but one of the more interesting chapters dealt with a plant in his lab somewhere on the East Coast that he left hooked up to the electrodes when he went to the West Coast for some reason. While there, he hurt himself somehow, and later, when they reviewed the plant's electronic record, it measured a phenominal spike at the precise instant Baker hurt himself 3,000 miles away.

File that one in the same category as the countless stories from World War I and II where a soldier's dog started howling in anguish the moment his master was killed far away in Europe.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Good wrap-up by Blue Crab:

"We here at Blue Crab Boulevard, however, intend to fully respect the proper place of plants.

"Next to the steak."

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