When this five-petaled thing burst forth from his English pea plant collection in late October, and then more flowers and even pea pods followed, he could also see, a little better, the future it might foretell on another world millions of miles from Earth.
Black soldier fly larvae could consume astronauts' organic waste and process it into frass, which could be used as fertilizer to coax plants out of alien soil.
We can't take everything with us... But gardening doesn't just require a plot of land, a bit of water, a beam of sunlight. It also requires very animate ingredients: the insects, like black soldier flies, and microorganisms that keep these ecological systems in working order.
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