Nibbles: Gardening, Maple syrup, Farming and conservation, Late blight, Urban guerrilla, Bizarre produce, Russian food, Aquaculture, Heirloom apples, Turkish medicinal plants, Bee-eating hornets

by Luigi on August 19, 2009

NY Botanical Garden launches summer Edible Garden celebration.
Thingy for getting more syrup out of maples invented.
Farmer floods his fields on purpose.
Insights into tomato late-blight resistance. Do try and keep up!
A very English guerrilla gardener.
Pictures of weird fruits and vegetables.
Russian starters. Uhm, I spot a trend.
The future of aquaculture: giant robotic roaming cages.
Saving California’s Sebastopol Gravenstein apple.
“Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plant Garden, opened in 2005, is Turkey’s first and only medicinal plant garden.”
Something else has it in for bees: Chinese hornets.

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Policy wonks start to worry about the next US Farm Bill and its effects on poor farmers elsewhere.
Poles start to worry about their endangered chicks.
The Youth in Agriculture gives agricultural biodiversity some love on St Valentine’s Day.
“Can jowar ever replace rice?” Question expecting the answer no? (Jowar is sorghum.)
Can anyone actually decipher what H.G. Wells wrote to FAO Director Lubin?
A Memorial Service will be held for Erna Bennett, in English, at 12.30 hrs. on Friday, 9th March at Santa Balbina Church, Viale Guido Baccelli, Rome. It’s near FAO. And no, there’s no link.
Ants help crop wild relative (among other things).

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Gregory Vaughan has news for fans of oca, and other Andean roots and tubers.

I just got back from the Parque de la Papa, and it turns out that they are indeed in the midst of a new repatriation of something like 78 accessions of virus-free oca (I think it’s just oca, with no mashua or ulluco yet) from CIP. They have transferred the vitroplants to soil bags that they are raising in a sterile greenhouse.

If anyone is interested, I’m working on a project with the UPTC in Tunja, Colombia to investigate and promote our local varieties of these tubers and other native Andean crops.

And yes Gregory, we’re interested.

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