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We’ve blogged about the Carolina African Runner peanut a number of times here, and it made NPR’s The Salt just after Christmas, but now it has received the podcast treatment too, thanks to Jeremy. It’s a great story, well told.
Grasses with bigger seeds and fewer stems make better crops. Genebanks are just the start. Wait, what’s a genebank? How much bush tucker is in genebanks anyway? Bringing back the Southern peanut. Smoked whale testicle beer for you, sir?
Cross-posted from JeremyCherfas.net The resurrection of the Carolina African Runner peanut has been greeted with joy throughout the land. [1] That it came to America with enslaved people from West Africa is undisputed; few people, however, seem interested in what peanuts were doing in West Africa in the first place, given that their ancestral home …
Lots to catch up on, strap yourselves in. The South’s original peanut is the Carolina African runner, and it is in need of help. Saudi Aramco World does its usual class number, this time on chili peppers. And, in a similar vein, more than you probably want to know about Tabasco sauce. The evolution of …
I believe we have Nibbled both of these articles, but I think they could stand another few minutes in the limelight. One describes how self-described “farmer-scientist” Dr Brian Ward of Clemson University — with a little help from his friends — is bringing back from near extinction a peanut variety called Carolina Africa Runner: Luckily, …
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