# @nationalparkservice on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGRQuL2RB8g
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26785116-nationalparkservice-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-02-19T21:36:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Service (@nationalparkservice) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice

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Famous for devising around 300 uses for the peanut, (wow, 300?) George Washington Carver was also an influential educator, botanist, and humanitarian. He advocated scientific methods to farmers who had become dependent on cotton. The peanut, being a legume, put nitrogen back into the soil for other plants to use. It was also nutritionally balanced crop that provided much needed protein into the diet as well as healthy fats, an let's not forget it helped subsidize the monocle and top hat industry for years.  Wait, different peanut. Also, not those children with a dog who moonlights as fighter pilot. Anyways, Carver's work stressed self-sufficiency through crop rotation, waste salvaging, crop diversification, and a renewed respect for the natural world, and his contributions to agriculture carry on this legacy today. Fun fact: Although Carver didn’t invent peanut butter, his work with the peanut helped popularize it.

Established in 1943, George Washington Carver National Monument, near Diamond, Missouri, was the first monument dedicated to an African American. Today, the park preserves the innovator’s childhood home where he developed his lifelong passion for the natural world around him. Learn more: nps.gov/gwca

Image 1: Closeup of various peanuts.
Image 2: Portrait of George Washington Carver, circa 1910/Tuskegee University Archives/Museum
Image 3: A view of “How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption” by George Washington Carver, 1916.
Image 4: A portrait of George Washington Carver with a container and plate filled with peanuts on display gwcarvernps

#BlackHistoryMonth #NationalParkService #GeorgeWashingtonCarver #peanuts

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| National Park Service | @nationalparkservice | https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice | Government Organization |

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