Tagged: drought

Rooibos Is Legally Bound to One Region. Climate Models Say It Is Shrinking.

European and South African law both restrict the name rooibos to a narrow, delimited stretch of the Cederberg and its neighboring valleys. A peer-reviewed bioclimatic model, and the farmers already testing its warning in the field, say that exact ground is growing less suitable for the plant, with nowhere the name can legally follow it.

The Red Bush Changes Its Own Soil, Then Changes It Back

Nobody fertilises a rooibos field. The plant grows in some of the hungriest soil on the continent by striking a daily bargain with bacteria that live in its own roots, one it renegotiates every morning and lets lapse every night.