Nibbles: Coffea, Tequila, Livestock wild relatives, Rice wine, Vit. D, Statistics

by Jeremy on November 13, 2008

Wild coffee studied; report from Madagascar.
Adding value to tequila. Lots of value.
Vietnamese farmers go wild.
Vietnamese farmers get drunk.
All about Vitamin D.
“…cranberries are the neglected stepchild of the season.”
What does that make the turkey?
Gates Foundation moves into space. Via.

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The Art of Farming: How to fund heirloom veggies, NYC black-tie style.
Oregano to save the planet from bovine emissions.
Kew blogs “strange articles of trade“, all examples of agricultural biodiversity. How about them worms?
Swazi farmer breaks with grazing tradition to adapt to climate change.
Another day, another DNA “sequence”. The turkey.
Overselling popped sorghum? On YouTube.

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Featured Comment: September 7, 2010

Rahul Goswami shares the history of fishing:

You know, on the west coast of India they wouldn’t go out to fish during the monsoon. Not because those amazing catamarans (the Malayali-origin word is ‘kattumaram’, more or less) can’t ride the big waves, but because the fish need time to breed.

There’s more, in the context of avoiding industrial meat … and fish is a meat, no?

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Nibbles: Coffea, Tequila, Livestock wild relatives, Rice wine, Vit. D, Statistics

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Who’s tweeting Medvedev