This image of ‘Glass Gem’ corn has sort of exploded on Milkwood Permaculture’s Facebook page, with over 3,000 “likes” and 10,000 “shares.” I just hope there’s enough seed out there.
‘Glass Gem’ corn, via Seeds Trust
Glass gem corn goes viral
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Fresh Nibbles: June 18, 2013
<- click to comment- A toolkit to help indigenous communities do conservation. Should they need one.
- On the other hand… Half of Japan’s endangered species hotspots are found in satoyama, which are under pressure. Compare and contrast with rice farming in Thailand.
- Learn all about some medicinal plants of the Amazon, minus their scientific names. Not including runa tea. Lots of other opportunities out there, though.
- Maybe even including oysters.
- Jeremy no doubt to feast on the mollusc after spilling the beans on the EU seed regulations at the Seed Savers jamboree.
- Wonder what Calestous Juma thinks of those regulations.
- But I bet he (and his father, who introduced the crop to his region of Kenya) would like this cassava website to rule them all.
- The Volcani Institute‘s gifts to the world…
- …probably include new strawberries, but not this one.
- Scientists straining, failing to find plant to meaningfully compare to the giant panda.
- Bioversity does up its iButtons.
- And gets a namecheck in a paean to the FAO Commission on GRFA on its 30th birthday. All this FAO stuff is because its Conference is on this week. I don’t suppose any of it will be more important than Amartya Sen’s speech.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
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Featured Comment June 10, 2013
Mary Winfree Found our post “Churros and peaches in the Canyon de Chelly” useful:
My back yard holds a sacred place and cemetery, we found it when a neighbor tried to build a road right up to my back door and the bones came up. We brought in Cadaver dogs who revealed a whole cemetery. It was a blessing in disguise because when we went to replant the bones of my little Indian Grandmother, there were more bones from the same tribe, that needed a home. They had been buried and then disturbed by a big hiway, and no place had been found for them. Now they will join the ones in my yard. We are holding a homecoming party for them. Songs both sad and happy, a BBQ and where they are replanted they are planting peach trees – now I know what that means…
We’re glad we were able to help a little.
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- Jeremy Cherfas: I can't find the button that says "Play with me".
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Thanks so much for this post. Just wanted to let you and your readers know that Native Seeds/SEARCH, one of the stewards of Glass Gem along with Seeds Trust, has added a blog with more on the story of this remarkable corn.
Read about it here: http://bit.ly/Kne4Kb
Also, we have a waiting list on our site for those that wish to buy seed, available in Oct 2012. Thanks for spreading the word!