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Fresh Nibbles: September 2, 2010
: <- click to comment- Host a volunteer school food gardener (in the US).
- M.S. Swaminathan’s menu for food security in India. Burp.
- Purmina Menon’s menu for food security in India takes us beyond food. Pardon me.
- Anyone for edible orchids? Anissa Helou on salep.
- Wasp flies in hot pursuit of cassava mealybugs.
- Melinda ♡ breastfeeding. The basis for sound nutrition.
- Humped conch got bigger as a result of human activities — despite being hunted. Complex.
- “Africa to become world’s breadbasket.” Makes a change from being the world’s basketcase.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
Featured Comment: August 29, 2010
Penny has an intriguing idea about black rice:
“Dr Xu says he’s like to see Louisiana farmers growing black rice”Or, we could just buy it from the countries where it is indigenous to. That way, the farmers who actually developed it would benefit from producing it.
She has reasons, too, good ones.
Who’s tweeting Medvedev- all that fruit being turned to housing #pavlovsk-- Russia's seed bank under threat http://t.co/hziC2OB via @youtube September 2, 2010 Arwenincognito (Arwen Bailey)
- Facebook group to save #Pavlovsk rare seed collection please join thanks http://bit.ly/c3DuiO September 1, 2010 aiammaia (aiammaia)
- RT @CropTrust: @KremlinRussia_E Mr. President, protect the future of food - save #Pavlovsk Station! http://bit.ly/d2H96s September 1, 2010 EveEmshwiller (Eve Emshwiller)
- @KremlinRussia_E Mr. President, protect the future of food - save #Pavlovsk Station! http://bit.ly/d2H96s September 1, 2010 CropTrust (Crop Diversity Trust)
- scandal surrounding the site of the Vavilov Horticultural Research Institute in #Pavlovsk is escalating dramatically http://bit.ly/doABxK September 1, 2010 InvasiveNotes (John Peter Thompson)
- RoboSteel: #Tearsinrain #Pavlovsk #Bumblebee #Twitter #Glitter #Icecream #Outrage #Terminator #Jealous #Banana http://tinyurl.com/ktypjp September 1, 2010 linkkytags (Linkky Tags)
- RT @CropTrust: Know your plants? Group effort to identify plants in photos from #Pavlovsk on our Facebook page: http://sn.im/11306h September 1, 2010 danjite (Daniel Spector)
- Russia's seed bank under threat http://youtu.be/q7rVT7Bf2Ek?a #Pavlovsk September 1, 2010 lophophora_blog (Lophophora Blog)
- More photos from priceless #Pavlovsk Station plant collection here: http://sn.im/1130dr September 1, 2010 CropTrust (Crop Diversity Trust)
- RT @InvasiveNotes: developers say #Pavlovsk contains a "priceless collection" so no monetary value cn B assigned 2 it http://bit.ly/aDCVhO September 1, 2010 carbonmarket (Victoria Kamsler)