Morton was hooked. Breeding plants on his farm and honing them over the generations into new varieties was a promising way to help support himself financially, but it also tickled a kind of deep curiosity in him about just what would come next. "Something lit up in my brain at that time," he says. "From that I began to explore…Through lettuce I’ve met other plant friends, like quinoa and peppers. I just kind of fell in with these plants."
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