Farmers, spraying... fertilizing... that 1970s book The Secret Life of Plants (with the final chapter on the "colony" or commune that rejected your friend) ... a whole chapter in that book warns of the pitfalls of chemicals and the superiority of MANURE to fertilize crops, and, half a century later, farmers continue to spray and fertilize.
YES - why didn't you make your fortune back then! Too busy raising three kids...?
You are brilliant. Is there nothing you do not do well, or more than well?
Everything you do seems sublime. Masterful.
If I can find those recipes, would you like to have them? I used cane sugar in them, but they weren't terribly sweet. No dairy, gluten, eggs. Oat flour.