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Maybe you’ve seen these weird things around. They look like carrots but they’re purple or yellow or magenta, sometimes even almost black. To some, they can be a little off-putting—unknown vegetables make a lot of people uncomfortable, even grown-ups. Well, consider this your introduction to heirloom carrots. Where did they come from? Before food production became widely industrialized (think gigantic tractors and conveyor-belt food processing) there were a lot more variations of the vegetables that most of us know today. Small-scale farmers used the seeds from their tastiest and best vegetables to grow the next year’s crop. With lots of farmers doing this over the years, there came to be more variation among the fruits, vegetables, flowers and even livestock that they produced. Today, we use the term “heirloom” to denote these older, more interesting varieties.
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