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🗓️ 22 February 2022
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
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0:32.6 | I'm standing on a hillside. All around me are short shrubs with purple stems and waxy leaves. |
0:39.3 | A brisk December wind moves through the low bush blueberry bushes, but among the plants |
0:44.2 | sits an odd site, row after row of solar panels. You've heard of solar farms, and you've heard |
0:50.8 | of blueberry farms. But a solar blueberry farm? Probably not. |
0:55.5 | This is the first farm to combine the two sun harvesters. |
0:59.3 | And that combo could be vital as Earth's climate changes. |
1:03.4 | Reporting from the coast of Maine, I'm Teresa Carey, |
1:06.1 | and this is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
1:22.3 | In this area, we've got the solar panels in among the blueberry plants. |
1:24.5 | Up here is more open. |
1:32.6 | We still have stone walls in there and some rock piles, but most of the land is just open for the blueberry production. When it comes to raising blueberries, Paul Sweetland has seen |
1:38.8 | it all. I've been doing blueberries basically my whole life, and it's been amazing to see how we've changed our cultural |
1:49.3 | practices over time. Sweetland Farms Maine's low bush blueberries, the tiny wild blueberries |
1:56.0 | the state is famous for. In fact, Maine is the only state in the country where wild blueberries |
2:02.1 | are commercially harvested. You can buy them in grocery stores from Hawaii to Texas to Alaska. |
2:08.3 | They're about half the size of conventional blueberries, but with twice the any accidents and even |
2:12.6 | more flavor. So way back, probably 30 years ago, pruning method was burning. So we used to come in and burn the |
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